Stephen King is the father of countless iconic monstrosities: Randall Flagg, Annie Wilkes, and The Overlook Hotel itself. The scariest of them all? To me, it's Pennywise by a long shot. If you feel the same way, I regret to inform you that the killer clown will return later this month in a new HBO series called IT: Welcome to Derry. The series hails from the director of the recent IT films, Andy Muschietti, and Bill Skarsgård reprises as Pennywise. Welcome to Derry rewinds to the 1960s, when—you guessed it—a certain balloon-wielding sicko is present for all sorts of trouble. Veteran entertainment journalist (and major King-head) Anthony Breznican met up with Muschietti to get the lowdown on the show's lofty goal: to answer questions about Pennywise's origins that King himself didn't. – Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor Plus: |
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In the new HBO series, It and It: Chapter Two creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti go deep on the sewer-dwelling entity in Stephen King's classic book. |
Long before he began work on the prequel series It: Welcome to Derry, Andy Muschietti remembers trying to pick Stephen King's brain for new insights into Pennywise. That's when the bestselling horror legend revealed a surprising secret. It happened on the set of the sequel, It: Chapter Two, in the summer of 2018. Muschietti had already directed the blockbuster 2016 remake of It, which told the first half of King's 1986 novel about a shapeshifting evil that arises every 27 years to stoke rage and feast on fear. As the filmmaker was wrapping up the second half of the story, he toured King around the riverside Ontario town that was standing in for the picturesque-but-cursed town of Derry, Maine. Muschietti found himself peppering King with increasingly detailed queries about the history, rules, and logic behind the supernatural entity that liked to call itself Pennywise the Dancing Clown. "At one point, I could see that he'd had enough and he said, 'Andy, look …'" Muschietti recalls. That's when King dropped a bombshell: He didn't really know himself. The questions that intrigued so many readers about Pennywise were mysterious to his creator too. |
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Casio is marking the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future with a special edition of its classic calculator watch, the CA-500. The new limited model, the CA-500WEBF, revives the original 1980s design made famous on Marty McFly's wrist—this time reimagined with DeLorean details, '80s packaging and a price tag set to £115 (or around $155). The watch face borrows design elements from the DeLorean's taillights plus the OUTATIME license plate, while the multicolored calculator buttons echo the glowing time circuits we remember from Doc Brown's dashboard. Flip it over and you'll find an engraved "Flux Capacitor"—the fictional device that powered the film's time machine, which famously kicked in at 88mph—with the Back to the Future logo etched into the buckle for good measure. |
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Peak camping season may be over, but you don't have to be pitching a tent to appreciate Filson's fall sale. While the heritage brand is best known for its rugged outdoor gear, its sturdy everyday basics—many of which are up to 70 percent off right now—deserve just as much attention. We're talking the kind of hardwearing jeans, flannels, and tactical jackets our dads swore by—the backbone of classic American style. They last for decades, and right now, they also happen to be so in. |
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