New characters and an old villain are everywhere in the second official trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry. For horror fans, the title is probably the most anticipated one to be on the way from HBO Max’s upcoming slate of content, as not only will Bill Skarsgård reprise his haunting role as Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Andrés Muschietti’s series of films, but Muschietti himself is also on-board with the project serving as a producer and also the helmer of several episodes. But, if you were expecting more tales from The Losers’ Club that took center stage in the filmmaker’s back-to-back features, you won’t find them here. Instead, Welcome to Derry pulls back the curtain and reveals the years of horror leading up to the introduction of characters like Bill and Richie.
A new family is moving into the quaint and quiet town of Derry at the top of today’s fresh teaser. Through their experience, we’re introduced to a different version of the location from what we’re used to, as it takes place a few decades before the events of 2017’s It. As the newcomers will soon find out, there’s a strange underlying current of evil that seems to possess the people of this town, one that fills them with hate, disgust, and contempt, and one that can be traced to an unexplainable entity lurking in the sewers. While we don’t get a close-up of Skarsgård’s return as the demonically devious clown, the trailer does Stephen King fans one better and includes a shot of a bus that’s headed for the Shawshank Prison — tying King’s very own multiverse together.
Will There Be More Seasons of ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’?
Muschietti has been incredibly vocal about his hopes for Welcome to Derry floating on beyond one season. And, with so many disastrous events going down in Derry over the course of several different decades, why not explore each of them? During a previous conversation with Radio TU, the filmmaker said,
“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. Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, there is a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle.”
Check out the second official trailer for HBO Max’s IT: Welcome to Derry above.
via Collider