HBO Drops Trailer for ‘IT: Welcome to Derry,’ Coming This Fall
HBO has just released a trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry, the upcoming horror series based on Stephen King’s IT.
The show is being made by Warner Bros. Television and was developed by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, who also worked on IT and The Flash, along with Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman). Andy Muschietti is set to direct four out of the nine episodes.
IT: Welcome to Derry will come out later this year on HBO, we can expect the release date to be in Fall, and will also be available to stream on Max. It takes place in the same world as the IT movies and expands the story created in the films IT and IT Chapter Two.
The cast includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso, and Bill Skarsgård.
Skarsgård, who played Pennywise in the movies, recently said he had mixed feelings about playing the clown again. “Yeah. I felt like I was done with it, in a way,” he said. “It was also because I was shooting this [Nosferatu], I was doing Orlok, and, to me, it felt like, ‘This is the nail in the coffin of my monster roles.’ Pun intended.”
He added, “So I did feel I was kind of over it and wanted to do different things. The Pennywise thing as well, I’ve been quite defined by it. Like, that’s 26-year-old me, I’m not still a young man. Barbara and Andy, the Muschettis, are doing it and I love them. They’re very close friends. Family, even. I’m the godfather of his son. I love them. So, alright, let’s bring him back.”
The series is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Television. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti (through their Double Dream company), Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Bill Skarsgård, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin are all executive producers. Fuchs wrote the first episode and is a co-showrunner along with Kane.
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