Stephen King’s It Casts First Member of The Losers’ Club
John Squires
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Last week brought along with it the huge news that actor Bill Skarsgard will be playing horror icon Pennywise for Mama director Andy Muschietti’s two-film adaptation of Stephen King’s It, and with production getting ready to begin this summer, we can expect a whole lot more casting news in the coming weeks. Speaking of which, read on for the latest!
As reported by Movie Web, young actor Jaeden Lieberher (St. Vincent, Midnight Special) has been cast to play Bill Denbrough in the adaptation, the leader of the group known as The Losers’ Club. The role was originally played by the late Jonathan Brandis in the 1990 TV mini series.
Per THR, the cast also includes Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs and Jeremy Ray Taylor.
You can expect the return of Pennywise on September 8, 2017.
Book Synopsis:
It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom’s belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. In search of It. And somehow it ended.
Or so they thought. Then.
On a spring night in 1985, Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. Stan Uris, accountant. Richie “Records” Tozier, L.A. disc jockey. Ben Hanscom, renowned architect. Beverly Rogan, dress designer. Eddie Kaspbrak, owner of a successful New York limousine company. And Bill Denbrough, bestselling writer of horror novels. Bill Denbrough, who now only stutters in his dreams.
These six men and one woman have forgotten their childhoods, have forgotten the time when they were Losers… but an unremembered promise draws them back, the present begins to rhyme dreadfully with the past, and when the Losers reunite, the wheels of fate lock together and roll them toward the ultimate terror.
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