Welcome to Derry, the prequel series to the It films, has been delayed to 2025, according to HBO.
The Big Picture Audiences will have to wait a little bit more to face Pennywise again, as Welcome to Derry, the prequel to the It film series, has been delayed to 2025. According to Variety, Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, stated that the series would come out later than expected due to production hiatus they had to take because of the dual strike organized by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.
The series will follow a group of kids haunted by Pennywise years before the events of the 2017 film directed by Andy Muschietti took place, as the cycle that allows the monster to feed once again unleashes the killer on the people of Derry.
The cast of Welcome to Derry will include Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk and Taylour Paige, as yet another group of victims falls in the claws of the creature that doesn't belong in the town. The show was announced while HBO was trying to expand its Max slate, and while everything moved in a relatively smooth manner throughout the development process, filming had to be stopped because of the SAG-AFTRA strike that's still taking place.
When Does 'Welcome to Derry' Take Place? The upcoming prequel has been stated to take place during the 1960s, and that makes sense considering how Pennywise behaves in both the book and film versions of his story. The clown has been established to come out every twenty-seven years, and if he took Georgie's life in 1988, it would mean that Welcome to Derry would explore the feeding cycle's manifestation previous to the ones seen in the movies.
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