‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Officially Renewed for 1935-Set Second Season at HBO
Brad Caleb Kane will lead the new season as the story resets around the Bradley Gang massacre and returns to Stephen King’s horror world.
- On Monday, HBO announced a Season 2 renewal for It: Welcome to Derry, its Stephen King prequel series exploring Pennywise the Dancing Clown's origins in Derry, Maine.
- Set during the Great Depression in 1935, Season 2 shifts the timeline back nearly three decades from the 1962 events of Season 1, enabling the show to explore different eras of Derry's history.
- Brad Caleb Kane will serve as sole showrunner, taking over duties previously shared with Jason Fuchs, while Bill Skarsgård is expected to reprise his role as Pennywise.
- The narrative centers on the bloody massacre of The Bradley Gang, bank robbers encountering unimaginable horror in Derry; this interlude comes directly from Stephen King's original novel.
- Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti continue overseeing the horror universe from their Chapter Two films; though the writers' room has opened, production suggests fans may wait at least another year.
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Andy Muschiett, creator of the series, yai had advanced details of Season 2 of 'It: Welcome to Derry'.
'It: Welcome To Derry' Season 2 Is Officially Happening
HBOWhile It: Welcome to Derry might have started as a (mostly) conventional prequel to Warner Bros.’ It duology, it was clear by the end of its first season that it had much weirder ambitions. A time-travel twist in its finale revealed intentions to head even further back in time, pitting Pennywise the Clown against a new crop of unsuspecting everymen. Welcome to Derry Season 1 more than matched the terrors of It: Chapter One and Two, but Season…
HBO Max announced Monday the official renewal of his IT series: Welcome to Derry for a second season, which will bring back the clown Pennywise and the small town of Maine for more extreme horror. Since its premiere last year, the show was consolidated as one of HBO Max’s four most important debuts worldwide, and its creators, Andy and Barbara Muschietti, openly expressed their intention to continue exploring Derry’s past. The first season takes…
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