Creepy Clown Is Gonna Getcha! Read the full article on AICN Hey folks, Harry here... Moving the time setting of the kids living in Derry to 1989 and then making this a two film series - with the Adults in the 2010s sometime... Well... Fine by me. The TV Miniseries that starred our beloved Tim Curry iconically playing Pennywise, the funniest and most adorable clown this side of John Wayne Gacy - kinda perfectly captured a nostalgic IT.