How 'It: Welcome To Derry' Expands the Legend of Pennywise
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How 'It: Welcome To Derry' Expands the Legend of Pennywise
"Muschietti had already directed the blockbuster 2016 remake of It, which told the first half of King's 1986 novel about a shapeshifting evil that arises every 27 years to stoke rage and feast on fear. As the filmmaker was wrapping up the second half of the story, he toured King around the riverside Ontario town that was standing in for the picturesque-but-cursed town of Derry, Maine. Muschietti found himself peppering King with increasingly detailed queries about the history, rules, and logic behind the supernatural entity that liked to call itself Pennywise the Dancing Clown."
"At one point, I could see that he'd had enough and he said, Andy, look Muschietti recalls. That's when King dropped a bombshell: He didn't really know himself. The questions that intrigued so many readers about Pennywise were mysterious to his creator too. King's half-joking reply was a kind of escape hatch, but it was also an acknowledgement that the unknown is what so often gives horror its power."
Andy Muschietti sought deeper insight into Pennywise while finishing work on It: Chapter Two and touring Stephen King around the Ontario town doubling for Derry. King confessed that he did not fully know Pennywise's nature, revealing only vague clues that suggest emergence from a void in a spiritual plane called the macroverse. The macroverse concept appears in other King works, including The Dark Tower series, but specifics remain undefined. That lack of definitive explanation allowed creative freedom and required audiences to imagine Pennywise’s origins, an ambiguity Muschietti used as a guiding principle for the prequel.
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