Planned Three Seasons of “Welcome to Derry” Will Take Place in These Three Distinct Eras

One of the hottest horror projects on the menu here in 2025 is HBO’s “Welcome to Derry,” a nine episode series that will serve as a prequel to Stephen King’s horror classic, IT.

Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs are leading the upcoming Pennywise prequel project from Warner Bros. Television, and Muschietti reveals in a new chat with Radio TU this week that the current hope is for “Welcome to Derry” to span three seasons.

Of course, that all depends on how successful the first season is when it debuts later this year, but it sounds like the team has already mapped out the skeleton of the three-season tale.

“Welcome to Derry” will kick off its story in 1962 in the time leading up to the events of It: Chapter One (2017). From there, Muschietti teases in his chat with Radio TU, the planned second and third seasons will jump back in time and take place in their own distinct decades.

Muschietti, who of course directed both IT and IT Chapter 2, explains: “It’s a story that’s based on the interludes of the book. The interludes are basically chapters that reflect Mike Hanlon’s research. They’re fragments of his research. For 27 years, it’s the guy trying to figure out what it is, what did it, who did it, who saw it, and all that stuff.”

“So they talk about catastrophic events from the past, like the fire in the Black Spot…. the massacre of the Bradley Gang, a gang of bank robbers in the ’30s… and the explosion of the Kitchener Ironworks,” the filmmaker continues. “Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, there is a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle.

“We are basing the three seasons of this series on each of these catastrophic events.”

Muschietti further teases, “There’s a reason why the story is told backwards. So the first season is 1962, the second season is 1935, and the third season is 1908.”

He also notes that Warner Bros. is happy with how the first season of “Welcome to Derry” turned out, and they’re “very interested in making the second season as soon as possible.”

The series will air on HBO in addition to streaming on Max. Stay tuned for a premiere date.

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