HBO gets around to finally renewing IT: Welcome To Derry

In giving the official green light for season two today, HBO confirmed that the new episodes will push the timeline further back to the 1930s. Specifically, it will take place during the Great Depression in 1935 and center on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who made the mistake of stopping in Derry to buy ammo and pay the price with their lives. Pennywise was, of course, very involved in their deaths. 

While the Muschietti siblings are still involved in season two, it will be showrun solely by Tokyo Vice‘s Brad Caleb Kane (who was the co-showrunner alongside Jason Fuchs in season one). No word yet on when IT: Welcome To Derry will return or who will play the new group of Losers whom Pennywise can terrorize, but let’s hope Skarsgård reprises his fiendish role. Although it’s worth noting that a younger Dick Halloran (Chris Chalk) is alive in 1935. Fingers crossed he’ll be involved, too.