Whoever was in charge of maintaining the sewers in Derry, Maine should have been fired a long, long time ago. As fans of Stephen King’s It will know, Pennywise didn’t come out of nowhere to haunt those kids. The scary clown reappears in the otherwise sleepy Maine suburb every 27 years to feed on a new generation of terrified citizens. Why anyone still lives there is a mystery, but it’s a question It: Welcome To Derry will hopefully attempt to answer.
The HBO series’ new trailer doesn’t give us much new information other than a general sense of “here we go again.” The show is set 27 years before the events of the first It movie (naturally), and the new clip introduces us to 1962’s round of enterprising, over-curious kid detectives/potential victims. This group once again picks up on the fact that a lot of other kids have gone missing around the town, and seems to think it’s a good idea to get even closer to the source of those disappearances. It’s not, but anyone tuning into this show knew that already. Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise also knows it, and shows up cloaked in shadow in the very last seconds.
In addition to Skarsgård, It: Welcome To Derry stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso. Also returning is original Itand It Chapter Twodirector Andy Muschietti, who developed the series with Jason Fuchs and his sister, Barbara Muschietti. “This is a book we love a lot, and we felt that there was still a lot of story to be covered,” the Muschiettis told Entertainment Weeklylast year. “In Welcome to Derry, we touch on the usual themes that were talked about in the movie—friendship, loss, the power of unified belief—but this story focuses also on the use of fear as a weapon, which is one of the things that is also relevant to our times.”
It: Welcome To Derry doesn’t have a set premiere date yet, but it is expected sometime this fall.
