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Pennywise the Clown gets the prequel treatment in HBO<\/a> series It: Welcome To Derry<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Based on Stephen King\u2019s novel It<\/em>, and serving as a prequel to the 2017 film adaptation directed by Andy Muschietti, the series rewinds the clock to 1962 as a new group of Derry residents are haunted by a mysterious force.<\/p>\n Andy Muschietti returns as a co-creator on the series, alongside sister Barbara Muscheitti and Jason Fuchs. Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd reprises his role as Pennywise, who is joined by new cast members Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Clara Stack, and Matilda Lawler.<\/p>\n All eight episodes of It: Welcome To Derry<\/em> are available to stream on NOW in the UK.<\/p>\n HBO has not officially announced a second season of It: Welcome To Derry<\/em>, but the show\u2019s creators have said there\u2019s a three-season plan.<\/p>\n As alluded to in the season one finale, the plan is to jump back in time to 1935 and 1908 for season two and three respectively. At the time of writing however, it\u2019s unclear if HBO will fulfill this vision.<\/p>\n Show creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti discussed what they have planned for season two in an interview with Variety<\/em><\/a>, reaffirming it will be set in 1935.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can only say the stuff that\u2019s already known, like it\u2019s in 1935, 27 years before season one and it involves the massacre of the Bradley Gang from the books,\u201d Andy said. \u201cIt takes place during the Depression in Derry, and there are some new characters and some characters from this season as well, but younger versions of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking about the concept for the show, he added: \u201cOur first pitch to Stephen King was to tell the story backwards. I can\u2019t say too much about the logic behind it, because I don\u2019t want to spoil it, but it has to do with how Pennywise experiences time in a non-linear way. We sort of hinted at it at the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Is \u2018It: Welcome To Derry\u2019 getting a second season?<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pennywise the Clown gets the prequel treatment in HBO series It: Welcome To Derry. Based on Stephen King\u2019s novel It, and serving as a prequel to the 2017 film adaptation directed by Andy Muschietti, the series rewinds the clock to 1962 as a new group of Derry residents are haunted by a mysterious force. READ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Is It: Welcome To Derry<\/em> season 2 happening?<\/h2>\n
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What have the creators said about season 2?<\/h2>\n