‘It: Welcome to Derry’: Season 2 Announcement Is Imminent
Last year’s It: Welcome to Derry appeared to be a major success for HBO, yet there has still been no official announcement about a second season. What’s going on?
Collider has the scoop, and the delay is nothing more than filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti getting their ducks in a row and getting everything on paper. Otherwise, it’s official, and an announcement is imminent.
“Yeah, it is going to be official,” Barbara Muschietti said. The process, however, is a slow one, as her brother added, “We’re all working towards it. We are working, the studio is working. It’s just that we want to make it real, and we need the material.”
Backing up what her brother said, Barbara Muschietti doubled down on It: Welcome to Derry being more of a when rather than an if:
“A lot of times, the announcements are the studio having to declare their confidence for the show. We don’t need that because clearly we’re good. So, when we do the green light, it’s a real green light. It’s not just like, ‘Okay, well, we’ll try to put this out so people watch the show.’ People have watched the show. It’s good.”
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 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.
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