Andy Muschietti Shares His Ideal 3-Season Timeline for It: Welcome to Derry

It: Welcome to Derry is already 1 of our most-anticipated fearfulness projects for 2025, and present we’re extra-eager to spot it knowing what manager Andy Muschietti has envisioned for its future. If the HBO bid is successful, helium said successful a caller interview, helium has hopes it volition extremity up moving 3 seasons successful total, with antithetic decades backdropping the events.

Makes sense, since Pennywise (who’ll beryllium played by Nosferatu‘s Bill Skarsgård, reprising the sinister role from Muschietti’s It and It Chapter Two) makes his dreadful beingness felt successful Derry, Maine each 27 years. Speaking to the Spanish-language Radio Tu, and reported by Bloody Disgusting connected X, Muschietti laid retired his perfect three-season arc for the story. The archetypal season, which is connected the mode soon, takes spot successful 1962. Then, the projected 2nd play would beryllium 1935, followed by a 3rd play acceptable successful 1908.

As fans of the Muschietti movies volition recall, 2017’s It took spot successful 1988 and 1989, allowing for each those New Kids connected the Block references. It Chapter Two past moves up you-know-how-many years, catching up with the now-adult characters successful 2016. Stephen King’s archetypal novel, which was released successful 1986, takes spot successful the clip frames of 1957-58 and 1984-85; its flashbacks volition assistance inform Welcome to Derry‘s story, but evidently definite details volition beryllium altered to amended hew to Muschietti’s mentation of the universe.

This tidbit from Muschietti amounts to much item than we’ve gotten antecedently connected It: Welcome to Derry‘s aboriginal plans (again, lone 1 play is guaranteed by HBO truthful far). The main details made official—besides Skarsgård’s spot successful the cast—are that the amusement is “set successful the satellite of Stephen King’s It universe;” it’s based connected the caller but volition besides “expand the vision” of Muschietti’s 2 films.

The remainder of the formed includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso; Muschietti is among the show’s enforcement producers on with Jason Fuchs (who scripted the archetypal episode) and Brad Caleb King (who co-showruns with Fuchs), and others. No connection yet connected precisely erstwhile It: Welcome to Derry volition premiere connected HBO, but it volition beryllium sometime successful 2025.

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