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Bill Skarsgård Comments on the Possibility of Playing Pennywise Again; “I Think It Would Be Fun”
With a nearly $200 million global opening, Andy Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two has proven that audiences are still interested in the adventures of Pennywise and the Loser’s Club, so it’s not all that hard to imagine a future wherein New Line goes back to the well at least one more time to tell a brand new story. But how likely is that to happen? And should it happen?
In a recent interview, Muschietti made it clear that there are currently no plans on extending the story beyond Chapter Two, but he did note that there’s still a whole lot of Pennywise mythology left to explore. He explained, “There is a whole mythology to the book…Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. IT has been on Earth for millions of years. He’s been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material. It’s always exciting to think of eventually exploring this mythology. It’s very exciting.”
Now in a new chat with EW, star Bill Skarsgård seems open to the possibility as well.
“It would have to be the right type of approach to it,” Skarsgård, who of course plays Pennywise in Chapter One & Two, told the site. “The book ends where the second movie ends, so that is the final chapter of this story. There is this interesting aspect of going back in time before all this happened. There might be a story there that might be worth exploring. Obviously that would be a story that’s not in the book, it would be a freestanding story, but obviously within the same universe.”
The actor added, “So, there might be something interesting out of it. I think it would be fun.”
Thoughts?
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