It: Welcome to Derry: Andy Muschietti reveals that season 2 will come from a 1930s subplot from the novel
Stephen King’s IT
We all float down here. The HBO and HBO Max TV series It: Welcome to Derry, which serves as a prequel to Warner Bros’ two-part adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It (pick up a copy HERE), gave fans an opportunity to see Bill Skarsgård reprise the role of the evil supernatural clown Pennywise. Naturally, the network is continuing the momentum and season 2 is on the way. HBO’s hit series is going to explore a subplot of Stephen King’s novel that has not been adapted.
Welcome to Derry
According to Deadline, season 2 will be set in the 1930s, and series creator Andy Muschietti revealed some information at Deadline’s Contenders TV Panel series,
It’s 1935 – we’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun. For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that — not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens.”
It was said that King was inspired by a true-crime story in his Maine home area from the 30s. Muschietti continued, “The Bradley Gang is based on the Brady Gang, which is a real-life gang of robbers that were executed in the streets of Bangor, Maine. And now we’re not creating the event that the big paroxysm of violence in this case will be the massacre of a Bradley gang.” He added, “There’s like three big events in Welcome to Derry Season 1 … and Season 3 would be the explosion of the Kitchener Iron Works, which is a big explosion during an Easter egg hunt where a hundred kids lost their lives. It’s always there f*cking around, so that much I can tell you.”
Welcome to your fears
Stephen King had this to say about the series when it was first announced: “I’m excited that the story of Derry, Maine’s most haunted city, is continuing, and I’m glad Andy Muschietti is going to be overseeing the frightening festivities, along with a brain trust including his talented sister, Barbara. Red balloons all around!“ The Muschiettis added, “As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s It until the thick paperback fell to pieces. It is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our It movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity, and horror.“
Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice) and Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman), who was a co-producer on It: Chapter Two, are the showrunners on It: Welcome to Derry. The show is being executive-produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling director/producer duo that was behind the two It movies, through their production company Double Dream. Kane and Fuchs are also executive producing, as are Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin. The series is produced by HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television.
Fuchs wrote the script for the first episode, working from a story he crafted with the Muschiettis. Andy Muschietti has directed four episodes of the nine-episode series.
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