Andy Muschietti Says It: Welcome To Derry Will Delve Deeper Into Past Each Season

It: Welcome To Derry is exploring the past of the titular town from the horror franchise, and Andy Muschietti says it will go further back each season. Muschietti, who directed It and It: Chapter Two, spoke with Radio TU and spoke about their three-season plan for the show.

“It’s a story that’s based on the interludes of the book,” Muschietti said (per Bloody Disgusting). “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.”

He continued, “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. 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… 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.”

The prequel series is set to arrive on HBO and Max this year, with the first footage shown during a promo spot in November. The series stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Madeleine Stowe, Stephen Rider, Alixandra Fuchs, Kimberly Guerrero, Dorian Grey, Thomas Mitchell, BJ Harrison, Peter Outerbridge, Shane Marriott, Chad Rook, Joshua Odjick, Rudy Mancuso, and Morningstar Angeline.