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The creation of Stephen King’sItis expanding with a prequel television set series titledWelcome to Derry , through which a major mystery about Pennywise and its victim can finally be explained . Stephen King has terrorized generations of viewers with his novels , and one that continues to be regarded as one of his scariest works isIt , publish in 1986.Itbrought one of the most democratic and fear villain in pop refinement , and its account , along with those of its victims , has been adapt to a miniseries and a moving-picture show duology , but there ’s still a circumstances to acquire about this queer tool and how it operate .

It is an evil , shapeshifting entity that originated in a void containing and surround the cosmos . It feeds off of the fear of its victims , and it hire the shape of those fears to terrorize them . It ’s preferred frame is that of Pennywise the Dancing Clown , through which it frequent fry , its favorite victims . It also targets adults , as see at dissimilar points in the novel and movies , mainly when it terrorizes the grownup Losers , but a mystery remains regarding It ’s dupe that a prequel could easily solve : why It mostly goes for children .

It Needs To Explain Why Pennywise Kills Kids

Not much is have it away about It ’s backstory , which break author and filmmakers some exemption to research why It / Pennywise is the way it is and why it mesh the way it does . What ’s known about Pennywise is that it comes from the Macroverse , it’sthe natural enemy of Maturin “ The Turtle ” , its real shape can labor a human into insanity , and it arrived on Earth in a massive cataclysmic event similar to an asteroid impingement . It has endure in the sewers of Derry , Maine for centuries , and it follows a design of a 27 - year hibernation , waking up to pour down and exhaust . During Pennywise ’s waking up , a series of child murders and disappearance take place all over town , but adult rarely take them seriously and do something about them .

In the novel , it ’s explained that Pennywise targets children because their fears are less complex than those of adult , allowing It to easy take the shape of whatever its dupe fears . To get to that , Pennywise surely had to test its ability and approach to its victims in Derry , which is what a prequel could search . realise how Pennywise hone its modus operandi and learned that children are easier prey than adults would be interesting and terrorize to watch , while also expanding on the mystic backstory of this creature .

An It Prequel Can Explore Pennywise’s Early Years

The above - advert TV seriesWelcome to Derrywill process as a prequel to the moviesItandIt Chapter Two , and will reportedly be set in the sixties . Welcome to Derrywill also explore the origin history of Pennywise the Dancing Clown , but it might not go as deeply as to research the animate being ’s other years . AnItprequel can go beyondthe origin of Pennywise(which was concisely beleaguer inIt Chapter Twoin a sequence where the creature was terrorizing an adult Bev ) and show how It perfect its skill and chose small fry as its main victims , then moving on to how Pennywise became its preferred conformation for that .

There ’s a lot of potential inItand Pennywise thanks to the many enigma of its backstory and place in King ’s Macroverse , but it can also be a big challenge . Expanding Pennywise ’s backstory and exploring its other years have to be in a way that it ’s uniform with what the novel and/or the movies establish , while also hold open what has made Pennywise such a terrifying villain for decades .

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Young and adult Bill Denbrough with Pennywise the Clown in IT

The Losers Club looks up in the sewers in IT

Bill Skarsgard laughing as young Pennywise with a melting clown face in the It franchise

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