IT: Welcome to Derry is a show told backwards.
With season one aka Chapter One of the prequel series ranking as #3 in HBO Max’s top original series debuts, after #1 The Last of Us and #2 House of Dragon, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Chapter Two is in the works.
IT and its Pennywise the Dancing Clown persona (Bill Skarsgård).
IT: Welcome to Derry season one aka Chapter One was set in Derry in 1962 at the time of the Black Spot massacre before the timelines of both feature films — IT: Chapter One set in 1989 and IT: Chapter Two in 2016.
In the proposed season two aka Chapter Two, we would visit Derry 27 years earlier than Chapter One in 1935 for another round of the supernatural monster IT’s murderous cycles — telling the story of the Depression era’s Bradley Gang of bank robbers getting entangled with the town and with IT.
And maybe get some answers about who built the Neibolt House: and why? And how it became an abandoned house atop Pennywise’s lair in the sewers of Derry?
Does this mean Chapter Three would go back another 27 years to Derry in 1908, when IT first encountered carnival performer Bob Gray aka Pennywise the Dancing Clown and killed him thinking the clown would make an effective visage for hunting children.
Or is there a time travel twist in the prequel series? Can IT and its Pennywise persona travel backward and forward in time to alter events we’ve already seen.
IT: Welcome to Derry – Chapter Two.
Working title: Fairview.
Ontario filming dates:
Showrunners: Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane.
Director: Andy Muschietti, who directed the films It: Part One & It: Part Two, and much of the prequel series.
Cast:
Producers: Bill Skarsgård’, Double Dream, Warner Bros. Television.
Filming locations:
Port Hope, Ontario, has transformed itself nto Derry, Maine for the film franchise and the prequel series.
