In the three (yes, THREE) years sinceHBO announced plans to move forwardwith anItprequel series, fans ofStephen King’s horror novel-turned-film-series have been eagerly waiting for today. And what is today, you ask? Why, it’s the arrival of the first teaser forIt: Welcome to Derry.Finally, the first look is here, and it is painting a truly terrifying and intriguing picture of what’s to come when the production makes its way onto the streamer later this year. Bringing a story to life that we’ve never seen play out on our screens, the title will give fans plenty of background about the sinister alien entity who caused so much terror and left nothing but chaos and destruction in its wake. WithBill Skarsgårdreturning to the role that he performed oh so well inAndrés Muschietti’s two-film series, audiences are truly in for quite a treat.
Thanks to the iconicTim Curry-led miniseries of 1990and the aforementioned films, King fans have seen plenty of on-screen tellings of The Losers Club’s showdown as both kids and adults against the titular killer clown inIt. The stakes are going to be higher than ever inIt: Welcome to Derry, withno characters being completely safefrom the murderous bloodshed that will pour out of the sewers and onto the streets of the eponymous town. Like filmmakerLindsey Anderson Beerpreviously did with thePet Semataryoffshoot,Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, theIt-centered series will focus on separate tales from King’s original novel.
Andrés Muschietti is Playing the Long Game with ‘It: Welcome to Derry’
Previously teasing some of those chilling stories, Muschietti said:
“It’s a story that’s based on the interludes of the book. The interludes are basically chapters that reflect Mike Hanlon’s research. They’re fragments of his research. For 27 years, it’s the guy trying to figure out what it is, what did it, who did it, who saw it, and all that stuff… So they talk aboutcatastrophic events from the past, like the fire in the Black Spot… the massacre of the Bradley Gang, a gang of bank robbers in the ‘30s… and the explosion of the Kitchener Ironworks. Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, there is a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle.”
While we sawbits and piecesof these events in the movies, the series will give itscreative teamplenty of extra time to really dig into the guts of it — both literally and figuratively. In all, Muschietti is hoping to explore the “catastrophic events” over a three-season arc.
Check out the debut teaser forIt: Welcome to Derryabove, and stay tuned to Collider for updates surrounding the highly-anticipated horror prequel series.
It: Welcome to Derry
