It: Welcome to Derry is already one of our most-anticipated horror projects for 2025, and now we’re extra-eager to see it knowing what director Andy Muschietti has envisioned for its future. If the HBO series is successful, he said in a recent interview, he has hopes it will end up running three seasons in total, with different decades backdropping the events.
Makes sense, since Pennywise (who’ll be played by Nosferatu‘s Bill Skarsgård, reprising the sinister role from Muschietti’s It and It Chapter Two) makes his dreadful presence felt in Derry, Maine every 27 years. Speaking to the Spanish-language Radio Tu, and reported by Bloody Disgusting on X, Muschietti laid out his ideal three-season arc for the story. The first season, which is on the way soon, takes place in 1962. Then, the proposed second season would be 1935, followed by a third season set in 1908.
As fans of the Muschietti movies will recall, 2017’s It took place in 1988 and 1989, allowing for all those New Kids on the Block references. It Chapter Two then moves ahead you-know-how-many years, catching up with the now-adult characters in 2016. Stephen King’s original novel, which was released in 1986, takes place in the time frames of 1957-58 and 1984-85; its flashbacks will help inform Welcome to Derry‘s story, but obviously certain details will be altered to better hew to Muschietti’s version of the universe.
This tidbit from Muschietti amounts to more detail than we’ve gotten previously on It: Welcome to Derry‘s future plans (again, only one season is guaranteed by HBO so far). The main details made official—besides Skarsgård’s place in the cast—are that the show is “set in the world of Stephen King’s It universe;” it’s based on the novel but will also “expand the vision” of Muschietti’s two films.
The rest of the cast includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso; Muschietti is among the show’s executive producers along with Jason Fuchs (who scripted the first episode) and Brad Caleb King (who co-showruns with Fuchs), and others. No word yet on exactly when It: Welcome to Derry will premiere on HBO, but it will be sometime in 2025.
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