Quickly it’ll be time to move again to the sewers. It: Welcome to Derry, a tv collection companion to the occasions of Stephen King’s It, is being developed for Max, and a few key details about the Pennywise prequel present is beginning to seep via.
Right here’s the whole lot to find out about Welcome to Derry.
Who will star in Welcome to Derry?
Invoice Skarsgård shall be given free rein to terrorize all the youngsters of city but once more on this collection. The actor beforehand portrayed Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the ever-present villain who emerges each 27 years to feed on scared youngsters, in Andy Muschietti’s adaptation movies It and It: Chapter Two.
The actor beforehand stated in a YouTube interview he had an curiosity in doubtlessly becoming a member of the collection relying on the fabric.
Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso have additionally been forged within the collection.
Welcome to Derry.
Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar, and Chris Chalk have been forged to star within the Max Authentic Sequence and prequel to the IT movies, coming in 2024 to Max. #WelcomeToDerry #ITSeries #ITMovie 🎈 #StreamOnMax pic.twitter.com/wnX3YTIB21
— Max (@StreamOnMax) April 12, 2023
Who will helm It: Welcome to Derry?
Andy Muschietti is returning to the franchise alongside producing companion Barbara Muschitti and co-producer Jason Fuchs. Muschietti is predicted to take the helm for 4 of the 9 deliberate episodes of the collection, together with the primary episode.
What number of seasons of It: Welcome to Derry will there be?
Muschietti revealed that he has a three-season plan, with Season 1 going down in 1962 and Season 2 leaping again to 1935 and Season 3 in 1908.
What’s It: Welcome to Derry about?
The logline for It: Welcome to Derry has been revealed by Max to be as follows: “Set on the planet of Stephen King’s IT universe, It: Welcome to Derry relies on King’s IT novel and expands the imaginative and prescient established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti within the function movies It and It: Chapter Two.”
Welcome to Derry takes place earlier than the occasions of Stephen King’s It, as offered within the 2017 and 2019 movies. The setting will reportedly be the Nineteen Sixties and can embody the origin story of Pennywise.
Pennywise is, in fact, the supernatural villain of It who has the power to shapeshift to satisfy his victims’ deepest fears. He’s additionally of extraterrestrial origin and has a connection to different components of King’s literary universe, together with the Darkish Tower.
A short preview of the collection was revealed in December 2023.
First teaser for the ‘IT’ prequel collection ‘WELCOME TO DERRY’.
Releasing in 2025 on Max. pic.twitter.com/5JEP3VjPXQ
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 6, 2023
When will It: Welcome to Derry premiere?
The collection is predicted to reach on Max in 2025.
What else ought to I find out about It: Welcome to Derry?
Manufacturing on the collection first started in Toronto in Might 2023, however capturing was suspended on account of the SAG-AFTRA strikes that summer time and fall. This resulted in a delayed premiere date.
Eight first-look photographs of the collection have been revealed (beneath).
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