EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Mancuso (Música) is set for a key recurring role in HBO‘s Welcome To Derry (working title) its It prequel series starring and executive produced by Bill Skarsgård.
Details of his role are being kept under wraps. Skarsgård will be reprising the title role as It/Pennywise from the hit 2017 New Line movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two.
Skarsgård is reuniting with other key auspices from the It film franchise, the two movies’ director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs, who developed together the TV adaptation of the Stephen King horror classic, as well as the films’ other producers, Roy Lee and Dan Lin.
Andy Muschietti will direct four episodes of the nine-episode series. Set in the world of King’s It universe, Welcome To Derry (wt) expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films, which amassed a combined $1.17 billion worldwide.
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