The new, big screen version of Stephen King's It recently found its Pennywise in Bill Skarsgard. And it has been swelling the ranks of the kids known as the Losers Club that have to battle him. Now we know who will be one of the bullies tormenting the youngsters when they're not fighting a demon, as Bloodline's Owen Teague has been cast.
Teague is on to play Patrick Hocksetter, a charming sort who makes the kids' lives a living hell and clearly has issues, since he also stocks his refrigerator with the dead local animals he has killed.
It's story which will be unfurled over a two-film story, sees an evil entity tormenting children in a small Maine town, and frequently taking the form of craven clown Pennywise. We'll follow the characters as kids in the first film, before the second finds them grown up with no memory of Pennywise, but forced to confront their past when it returns. The initial casting also includes Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs and Jeremy Ray Taylor.
Mama's Andy Muschietti is directing, and the cameras should be rolling in July. Teague, who plays Nolan Rayburn on Bloodline, is also part of the cast for another King adaptation, Cell.