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Supernatural horror series It: Welcome to Derry premieres its first episode on October 26 on HBO Max, with a schedule release running until December 14.
Director Andy Muschietti, who worked on the novel’s most recent film adaptations It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019), returns as show developer alongside Barbara Muschietti, who produced the two films, and Jason Fuchs who also serves as a co-showrunner.
Based on the 1986 Stephen King novel It, the show is set to dive into the lore of the main antagonist Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), an ancient malevolent entity who appears as a clown every 27 years to prey upon the children of Derry, Maine, using supernatural powers.
In an interview, Andy explained that the film is set in 1962, 27 years before the events of the first movie.
The executive producer also revealed that the eight episodes will match the film’s atmosphere but with added elements, making the upcoming series even more intense.
“I wanted to maintain the same tone of the movie because I wanted the movies themselves to maintain the tone of the book, which is terribly scary and graphically violent. There are heightened emotions, but there’s also a lot of humour,” he said.
“We had the opportunity to make it creepier because it’s a bigger canvas with more characters and more of their fears to explore. The intention is to take things to the edge and give audiences more than what they’ve experienced in the movies before,” he added.
