Pennywise in It: Welcome to Derry will be treated like the shark in Jaws

HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry takes viewers to 1960s Maine, where a hateful town feeds on shared pain and kids face Pennywise’s terror. While children investigate and adults sense something sinister, the series leans harder than ever into Pennywise’s chilling shapeshifting—surpassing both the 1990 miniseries and the modern films directed and produced by Andy and Barbara Muschietti with which it shares canon.