While we’re still waiting for HBO Max to officially announce the second season of “Welcome To Derry,” a prequel series connected to Andy Muschietti’s “IT” films based on the work of horror author Stephen King, there is an update of sorts from Muschietti.
Speaking recently with Deadline, Muschietti is dishing on what is next for “Welcome To Derry” (expected to get two more seasons set in 1935 and 1906, at least, that has been the plan) and gives some insight to fans of what source material could be explored in those follow-up seasons exploring Pennywise’s reign of terror on the sleepy town of Derry, Maine. Also, confirming they’re already actively working on the second season.
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“It’s 1935, we’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said during Deadline’s Contenders TV. “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.”
That’s not it, as Muschietti talked about Season 3 ideas he’s considering, which has an event from King’s work that could have some brutal consequences for the show, as there is a massive accident in 1906, where multiple children are killed.
“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***ing around, so that much I can tell you.”
Continuing to muse about Season 2, which is set during the 1930s (specifically, 1935), “It’s fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we’re facing an era, which is the Depression Era, that changes dramatically the setup of things. There’s no suburban comfort — the trope of the kids that live in suburbia and they ride their bikes, and suddenly one of them disappears, is nothing like this. This is in 1935. It’s a very dire situation. People are very poor. They’re struggling to survive so that the setup will be very different.”
With the time jumps here for subsequent seasons of “Welcome To Derry,” that means all new casting outside of Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård, carrying over the Pennywise role (an interdimensional creature that feeds on the fear of children) from the feature films to the limited series (won’t be limited for too much longer).
We’ll also be curious if there will be more linkage to other King works after Season 1 tied “Welcome To Derry” to “The Shining” via Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk plays a younger version of Hallorann in the HBO Max series), who lived in Derry before the events of the Stanley Kubrick film.
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