Owen Teague (Netflix’s “Bloodline”) has joined the cast of the upcoming It adaptation, according to THR. The site explains that Teague will play, “…Patrick Hocksetter, [who is] part of a group of bullies who torment the Losers Club. He is a psychopath and keeps a refrigerator full of animals that he’s killed.”
Based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama), the film will be broken into two parts. The first will focus on “The Losers Club” in their childhood while the second film will follow them as adults.
Teague joins Bill Skarsgard, who will be playing the villainous Pennywise the Clown, as well as Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things”), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween ), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy ), Chosen Jacobs (Cops and Robbers) and Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ant-Man).
It hits theaters on September 8th, 2017.
