With Andy Muschietti’s IT movies being big hits for Warner Bros, it was no big surprise that plans would be put in place to expand on the story.
The plans gave birth to the Welcome to Derry TV series which would not just be a prequel series to the hit movies but would also, interestingly, but prequels to Stephen King’s iconic novel… no small thing.
The series would be set 27 years before the first IT movie and Muschietti will direct four out of nine episodes with Bill Skarsgard returning as Pennywise; fans will recall that Pennywise the Clown, the entity which terrifies and devours the children of Derry, Maine, returns every 27 years before skulking back into the darkness he comes from.
With that in mind, Muschietti has revealed that Welcome to Derry isn’t a one and done show and will, instead, have three planned seasons, going back further into Pennywise’s history every season: “First season is 1962, the second season is 1935, and the third season is 1908,” he tells Radio TU in a new interview.
While I have no doubt the series will be good and, if nothing else, a fun horror series, for it to really connect to King’s book and, indeed, his wider universe, it will need to be more than jumps and gore and needs to have character and to really delve into who – what – Pennywise is and his connections to the gods and monsters that hide in the darkness of King’s universe; this is a story that will connect to The Dark Tower and the fate of all reality, so it’s not something to be taken carelessly.
Not that I think Muschietti will, he certainly seemed to care about making IT Chapters one and two something bigger than standard horror fayre, so I have faith… mostly.
Thoughts?
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