A prequel for Stephen King’s iconic ‘IT’ story, which has been successfully adapted into a franchise from director Andy Muschietti, will be arriving on the Max entertainment platform sometime in 2025 and will see the return of Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown.
HBO’s Casey Bloys spoke about HBO’s entertainment plans in the future, in an interview with Variety.
“One of the advantages that I think we have as a company, putting aside HBO for a second, is all the Warner Bros. IP. So after House of the Dragon, the next big tentpole series that we have coming up will be the Penguin with Colin Farrell. That is coming out of Matt Reeves’ The Batman and it’s fantastic. Just like Peacemaker came out of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad, it’s a really good example of what you can do. That’ll be in September.”
“And then after that, I don’t know if we landed on a date yet, but later in the fall we’ll have the Dune prequel series that is about the origins of the Bene Gesserit. And then going into ’25, we will have Stephen King’s It,” he added. “Warner Bros. has done two films — we’ve got a prequel series of that planned as well. And then obviously, the Harry Potter series, further down the line. We’re still in the process of working with writers on their takes.”
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs are attached to the new project with Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (“Watchmen”), Chris Chalk (“Perry Mason”), James Remar (Oppenheimer), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil) set to star.
According to the official synopsis: “The series will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One, the 2017 film based on the Stephen King horror novel. The story is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.”
