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HBO Max's Highly Anticipated IT Prequel Series Welcome to Derry Finally Has a Trailer, and It's Delightfully Creepy
- HBO Max will release the prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry this fall, featuring Bill Skarsgård reprising Pennywise the Dancing Clown in 1962 Derry, Maine.
- The series follows years of development and explores an earlier killing spree by Pennywise, based on the interludes in Stephen King's novel IT and developed by the Muschiettis and Jason Fuchs.
- IT: Welcome to Derry features a new ensemble cast including actors such as Madeleine Stowe and others, while Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise and also takes on an executive producer role alongside Fuchs, Kane, and the Muschietti siblings.
- Skarsgård initially declined but returned to explore new sides of Pennywise, describing the TV version as "hardcore," and King fans widely praised his casting as perfect.
- The series expands the IT film universe, aiming to deepen themes like fear and friendship, while setting the context for the clown's cyclical 27-year murderous pattern in Derry.
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HBO’s Most Exciting Horror Series Finally Has A Trailer
HBOIn the wake of The Penguin’s success, there are suddenly higher expectations for It: Welcome to Derry, another HBO prequel to a major movie franchise. It certainly has the hallmarks of both classic HBO and classic horror: a period setting, coming-of-age themes, and a classic villain in Pennywise the Clown. Now we have a new look at Welcome to Derry, and it also invokes a classic Stephen King trope: the ragtag group of kids solving a mystery. …
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 previou…
HBO’s It show dials back the clock 30 years in first teaser
After years of development, HBO has finally released a teaser for its prequel series, It: Welcome To Derry, which will debut this fall. The series is developed by It and It: Chapter Two director/screenwriter duo Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, with Andy set to direct multiple episodes of the series. “Set in the world of Stephen King’s ‘IT’ universe, IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is based on King’s ‘IT’ novel and expands the vision established by …
IT: Welcome to Derry Trailer Sees Pennywise Return In 1962-Set Prequel
A prequel series set in Derry, Maine back in 1962 -- before the events of the recent It film remakes -- finds another group of young kids discovering the town's secrets after more children are murdered. Per HBO Max, the series is "set in the world of Stephen King's IT universe," is based on King's novel and "expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT and IT Chapter Two. While no premiere date has been anno
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