Max's Coming Soon to Max showreel has revealed a sneak peek of IT: Welcome to Derry, the upcoming Stephen King-approved IT prequel series from Andy Muschietti, who directs and leads the series alongside Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs.
Sadly, we still don't get a glimpse of returning star Bill Skarsgård in his turn as a “hardcore” Pennywise, but if his take on Nosferatu proved anything, it's that less is definitely more when it comes to monster reveals.
Joining Skarsgård in It: Welcome to Derry are Taylour Paige (Zola, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), Jovan Adepo (Babylon, Watchmen), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason, Godzilla vs. Kong) and James Remar (Creepshow, Oppenheimer).
Warner Bros. Television's It: Welcome to Derry kicks off in 1962, with a nine-episode first season set to expand the vision established by Muschietti in It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019). If all goes to plan, Welcome to Derry could potentially end up being a three season show:
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 about catastrophic 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.We are basing the three seasons of this series on each of these catastrophic events.
While we still don't have an exact release date for Welcome to Derry, today's new footage confirms the series will release later this year.
Check out the new look at It: Welcome to Derry below (starting at 1:08) and look out for more details as we get them.
