The It Prequel Series Is Inspired by the Novel’s Flashbacks

Mystery is mostly a portion of Stephen King’s enactment and this Halloween, 1 of them has begun to beryllium solved. It’s been a fewer years since we archetypal heard rumblings of an It prequel series being successful development; earlier this year, we learned the show, called It: Welcome to Derry, would beryllium coming successful 2025. Even past though, specifically however the amusement would excavation King’s archetypal caller was unclear. Now, things are starting to travel into focus.

Entertainment Weekly has a caller portion about It: Welcome to Derry and successful it we larn that the backbone of the amusement volition beryllium the novel’s flashbacks centering astir Mike Hanlon’s research. Throughout the novel, Mike (played by Chosen Jacobs and Isaiah Mustafa successful the astir caller movies) talks to immoderate of Derry’s older residents astir their past experiences with It. One of those segments is Mike talking to his father, Will, astir a nightclub Will opened called the Black Spot and however a achromatic supremacist radical burned it down, sidesplitting many. An onslaught that included It, this clip appearing not arsenic Pennywise the Clown, but arsenic a immense bird. That determination and communicative are astatine the halfway of Welcome to Derry.

“This is simply a publication we emotion a lot, and we felt that determination was inactive a batch of communicative to beryllium covered,” Andy and Barbara Muschietti, the manager and producing squad down the It movies, told EW. “It’s truthful affluent with characters and events, we thought we would bash justness to the publication and the fans by going backmost into this world. Specifically, we are telling the stories of the interludes, writings by Mike Hanlon based connected his probe that includes interviews helium conducts with the older radical successful the town.”

Here’s a marque caller batch of images from the show, courtesy of HBO:

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The nonfiction besides confirms speculation that, due to the fact that the It movies took spot successful a much modern era, that means the It appearances—which hap each 27 years—will displacement arsenic well. The bulk of the amusement is acceptable successful 1962, 27 years earlier the events of the movie, and the Black Spot incidental is from 27 years earlier that.

“Twenty-seven years is the dormant play of Pennywise,” the Muschiettis said. “It’s a antithetic portion of American past with a caller acceptable of fears for children, arsenic good arsenic adults having successful caput the outgo of the Cold War. Our baseline is 1962, but we bash a fewer jumps to the past… Every 27 years erstwhile It appears, It’s rhythm is marked by 2 catastrophic events, 1 astatine the opening and 1 successful the end. We are utilizing the Black Spot arsenic an lawsuit successful which galore stories are built around.”

What’s inactive unclear astir It: Welcome to Derry is conscionable who the main characters are, however they are related to immoderate of the characters successful the movies, and which, if any, survive. One harmless bet, however, is Will Hanlon, Mike’s father, arsenic a younger man.

Head implicit to Entertainment Weekly for much connected It: Welcome to Derry, including much from the Muschiettis. The amusement is coming to HBO sometime successful 2025 and volition tally 9 episodes, with Andy Muschietti directing 4 of those.

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