--- title: Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's 'It' description: Pennywise, the quintessential scary clown, spooked audiences at the MTV Movie and Music awards Sunday in a new trailer for 'It.' canonical: https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/ author: Joseph Hincks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-08T06:33:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:47:41.443Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's 'It' og:description: The film's first trailer garnered 197 million views in its first 24 hours og:url: https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's 'It' twitter:description: The film's first trailer garnered 197 million views in its first 24 hours twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's _It_ by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks May 8, 2017 6:33 AM UTC by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks May 8, 2017 6:33 AM UTC _It_‘s here. Almost. Pennywise, the quintessential scary clown, spooked audiences at the MTV Movie and Music awards Sunday in a new trailer for _It_, which is scheduled for release on September 8. Andres Muschietti’s upcoming film _It —_ based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel — pits a group of kids dubbed “the Losers Club” against Pennywise in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The [film’s first trailer](http://time.com/4740804/pennywise-meme-2017/) was released in March. Variety [reports](http://variety.com/2017/film/news/it-movie-teaser-sneak-peek-mtv-movie-tv-awards-1202410522/) that it garnered 197 million views in its first 24 hours, making it the world’s most-watched trailer in its first day. > [](https://twitter.com/MTV/status/861391742381064192) The trailer shows members of the Losers Club exploring a fetid sewer before cutting to a slow reveal of Bill Skarsgård’s supernatural clown, grinning behind a bunch of red balloons. Watch it above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's It","datePublished":"2017-05-08T06:33:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:47:41.443Z","description":"The film's first trailer, released in March, garnered 197 million views in its first 24 hours","url":"https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/","keywords":["movies","pubdesk","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4770224/it-new-trailer/","name":"Watch the New Trailer for Andres Muschietti's It"}}]}] ```