IT: Welcome to Derry Trailer: A Missing Child and Evil Spirit Cause a Small Maine Town to Freak — Plus, Get Premiere Month

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HBO has released a brand-new trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry, its forthcoming IT prequel series, which will premiere this October (exact release date TBA). The horror-drama’s first season spans nine episodes; you can watch the new clip below.

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Based on Stephen King’s IT novel, first published in 1986, Welcome to Derry “expands the vision” established by director Andy Muschietti in the films IT and IT Chapter Two, which respectively released in 2017 and 2019. Not much else is known about the project’s plot (besides what’s shown in the trailer, of course), but Bill Skarsgård is confirmed to reprise his role of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who he played in both of Muschietti’s movies. Muschietti is also among the series’ writers and executive producers, and he directed four of the upcoming episodes.

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Other IT: Welcome to Derry cast members include Taylour Paige (Hit the Floor), Jovan Adepo (3 Body Problem), Chris Chalk (Gotham), James Remar (Dexter), Stephen Rider (Marvel’s Daredevil), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Rudy Mancuso (Amigos).

“As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s IT until the thick paperback fell to pieces,” Muschietti and his sister, Barbara (also an executive producer), said when Welcome to Derry was first ordered in February 2023. “IT is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our IT movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity and horror.”

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Welcome to Derry will also stream on HBO Max, in addition to its linear airings. Will you be making the trip to Maine with HBO? See some new photos below, then light up the comments.

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