Pennywise The Clown Gets a Creepy New Costume In ‘It’ Remake
To many people, there will only ever be one true Pennywise The Clown - Tim Curry, who starred in the 1990 miniseries - but the new adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘It’ is forging its own path giving the immortal, balloon-loving clown a haunting makeover.
Check out the first full-length look at the new Pennywise - played by 26-year-old Bill Skarsgård - below, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.
The gloomy new photo shows Pennywise adopting an monochrome harlequin-inspired costume.
It’s a stark contrast to the shapeless garish number worn by Curry in the 1990 miniseries, and it certainly adds an spooky new dimension to the eternal beast who feeds on the fear of young children.
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“The costume definitely incorporates all these otherworldly past lives, if you will,” costume designer Janie Bryant told EW. “He is definitely a clown from a different time.”
It’s hard to make out in the original image, but if you manipulate the image to make it lighter (see below), you can see the costume is grey with orange and red accents.
“The pompoms are orange, and then with the trim around the cuffs and the ankles, it’s basically a ball fringe that’s a combination of orange, red, and cinnamon,” Bryant adds. “It’s almost like Pennywise fades into his environment. But there are accents to pull out the definition of the grey silk.”
“It makes him almost like a shadow.”
Earlier this year Skarsgård telling Entertainment Weekly” “Tim Curry’s performance was truly great, but it’s important for me to do something different because of that. I’ll never be able to make a Tim Curry performance as good as Tim Curry.”
Directed by Andrés Muschietti (’Mama’), ‘It’ is coming to cinemas in September, 2017.
Image credits: EW/Warner Bros. Television
