Season 1 of the new HBO / Max series based off the Stephen King book comes out later this year.
Season 1 will be set in 1962, season 2 in 1935, and season 3 in 1908. The two recent movies were set in 1989 and 2016. Pennywise only shows up every 27 years and horrible things happen in Derry when It comes out of hibernation or whatever.
Created and directed by the folks who did the two movies. Bill Skarskård will once again play Pennywise.
Teaser trailer looks great.
Looks pretty good actually. I saw the first It a few years ago, not the second. HBO makes excellent series, I’ll definitely watch this.
When I first saw the trailer I was intrigued with the line, ‘…from the world of Steven King…’ I thought of the Hulu series Castle Rock and maybe this too would be a mash up of King characters and stories.
Does not seem to be that, but more of an origin story of Pennywise.
Sill seems very interesting, and I’ll be watching.
I really liked the second movie although not as much as the first. As you can imagine it’s the same kids but 27 years later so they’re now 40 or whatever. The first movie is just more terrifying as it’s seen through the eyes of kids so Pennywise was just more menacing for that reason.
Excellent casting in the second movie to play the kids as adults, including James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, and Bill Hader.
It’s been a LONG time since I read It or watched any of the movies. But isn’t Pennywise basically just a spider?
It is basically a shapeshifting alien that manifests itself in many forms depending on its prey. Most often as Pennywise the Clown.
If I remember correctly, the spider creature was just the closest thing to IT’s actual form that the human mind could comprehend.
G-man has it correct - it’s a alien shape shifter that takes the shape of whatever it thinks will be most scary to its prey - it feeds off the terror it inflicts on its prey.
The kids first see it as a spider - but then, as Steven King is so keenly aware, it also prefers to take the shape of the ‘dancing clown’ to inflict terror on children.
Its actual form appears as a swirl of light - deadlights - and causes insanity or death when seen in its true form.
The first episode was pretty good it started with a heck of a punch and ended with one too.
E1 was a great start.
E2 was awful.
I wouldn’t call E2 awful but it was all over the place in trying to setup five different storylines.
They got to be careful with the Dick Halloran timeline. His involvement in the book was about something that happened in the 1930s not the 1960s. Did that already happen or is that 1930s incident going to happen in this season? Which would be weird because the next season is set in 1935. Also, The Shining takes place in the late 1970s about 15 years after this season of It. Mr. Halloran must age a lot. 
On second watch, not awful. Agree on the Halloran story line, although I’m thinking of extended life as part of the package - a la John Coffey. I think my issue was with the grocery store scene - way too stylized and just felt lazy.