Pennywise Returns: “Welcome to Derry” Season 2 Is in Development
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but a second season of HBO’s “IT: Welcome to Derry” is officially in the works, even if it hasn’t officially been renewed yet. The news was hiding in a story over at THR this morning.
Set in 1962, a couple with their son move to Derry, Maine just as a young boy disappears. With their arrival, very bad things begin to happen in the town…
Set in the world of Stephen King’s “IT” universe, “Welcome to Derry” is based on King’s “IT” novel and expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT and IT Chapter Two.
In an interview with Deadline last December, Muschietti confirmed a further seasons. “His [Pennywise’s] experience of time is non-linear. How is that and why, that’s a whole exploration that we intend to flesh out during the next two seasons, but that was pretty much [the idea] from the beginning,” Muschietti told the outlet. “The pitch to Stephen King was we’re going to tell a story backwards, and it has to do with that hint.”
Specifically, Muschietti tells Deadline that further seasons intend to answer the question of, “Is he [Pennywise] going backwards in a linear way, or is he omnipresent, and how does that affect the story that we already know?”
Pennywise fans can head back to Derry and experience the first season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” when it arrives on 4K Ultra HD this May 5.
More as it comes in.
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