20-05-2025
IT Welocome to Derry trailer: Fear of Pennywise strikes back
The prequel to Andy Muschietti's supernatural horror franchise, It, is all set to recreate the conjuring saga of Pennywise, the Dancing Clown. The trailer of IT: Welcome to Derry was released, which is based on Stephen King's classic novel It (1986). The trailer once again brings back the terrifying mysteries in the backdrop of 1962 as it navigates the story of missing trailer opens with a kid stranded amid snowfall in the night. A car approaches them to offer a ride home. The child responds by saying, "Anywhere but Derry." The video then shows a series of shocking events in 1962 where children from the town go missing. The story then hints at connecting the past with the present as Pennywise emerges 27 years younger and hungrier while the kids run to save their lives. Ignorant adults, a gang of kids on bikes to strange faces creepily staring from windows to the disappearance of children, the events remind of the terror of Pennywise. At the end of the trailer, a caped, scary character in a dark tunnel is revealed as everyone screams for show has a '60s vibe to it as it introduces many unnamed new characters, featuring Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe and Rudy Mancuso. The miniseries about child disappearances is developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. It is co-produced by New Line Cinema, Warner Bros Television and Double
It (2017), directed by Muschietti had screenplay by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman. The film was jointly produced by New Line Cinema, Lin Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment and KatzSmith Productions. The sequel It Chapter Two (2019) was also directed by Muschietti with screenplay by Gary Welcome To Derry debuts on the newly renamed/reverted HBO Max — and presumably Sky in the UK, later in 2025.
