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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
IT: WELCOME TO DERRY Trailer Delivers the Unsettling Pennywise Prequel of Our Dreams
The origin story of Pennywise the Clown is coming to HBO Max (yep, that name is back), thanks to It: Welcome to Derry. In season one, we will go decades back to discover how all of this strangeness began for a town's children. And if the trailer for Welcome to Derry is any indication, we are in for a terrifying trip back to 1962. This season is actually the first of a planned three-season arc, with the latter two going further back in time to 1935 and 1908, respectively. So we will likely end this season with more questions that need answers. And we will also have to hope that Warner Bros. doesn't cancel the series before its story can come to completion. Either way, we are cautiously optimistic about It: Welcome to Derry based on its trailer. It shows a new family moving into Derry, Maine, where kids are going missing at a relatively rapid rate. At first, the neighbors seem cold and you'd assume racism because, well, this town seems very white and the new family is Black. That's probably a part of it, but certainly only scratches the surface of what's going down. A few intrepid youth realize that murder is likely the source of these mysteries, but they are told to not stick their noses where they don't belong. Everything happening feels unsettling and creepy to the max before we finally get a glimpse of Pennywise at the end. Good stuff! RELATED ARTICLE Why Are Small Towns the Perfect Sinister Setting for Horror? Welcome to Derry will drum up scares on HBO and HBO Max in the Fall of 2025.
Express Tribune
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Where IT all began: HBO Max drops official teaser for 'IT' prequel series 'Welcome to Derry'
HBO Max has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Welcome to Derry, an upcoming horror series that serves as a prequel to the hit IT films. Set in the 1960s, the show explores the dark origins of the terrifying entity known as Pennywise the Clown, with Bill Skarsgård reprising his acclaimed role. The series is set 27 years before the events of the IT movies, adapted from Stephen King's classic novel, and delves into one of the creature's previous killing sprees in the haunted town of Derry, Maine. Directed by Andy Muschietti, who also helmed the two IT films, Welcome to Derry expands on the mythology of King's universe. According to Muschietti and co-executive producer Barbara Muschietti, the story is inspired by the book's 'interludes'—accounts compiled by Mike Hanlon based on interviews with Derry's older residents. 'It's so rich with characters and events, we thought we would do justice to the book and the fans by going back into this world,' the Muschiettis told Entertainment Weekly. The series highlights key themes such as fear, loss, and unity while focusing on how fear can be used as a weapon—something the creators say resonates strongly with today's world. The ensemble cast includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso. In addition to the Muschiettis, executive producers include Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, and Skarsgård himself. Fuchs, who penned the teleplay for the premiere episode, shares showrunning duties with Kane. Welcome to Derry is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Television and is slated to premiere this fall on HBO Max.
The Verge
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Pennywise returns in the first trailer for HBO's It prequel Welcome to Derry
It: Welcome to Derry, the prequel TV show for Stephen King's It, has a new trailer. Coming to HBO Max (née Max, née HBO Go, née HBO Now, née…) this fall, the show centers on what seems to be the origins of It 's supernatural villain Pennywise the Clown and the first crop of kids to ever take him down. In the trailer, we're introduced to an African American family moving into Derry, Maine where they face a chilly reception from the town's white residents. The family's child makes friends with other local kids and together they start experiencing then investigating strange events in the town related to children gone missing. Set in Maine in 1962, Welcome to Derry functions as a prequel to the It remake duology released in 2017. Andy Muschietti, director of the two It films, is the writer for Welcome to Derry and will direct a number of the series' episodes. Bill Skarsgard is also returning to reprise his role as Pennywise.
