First images from prequel series It: Welcome to Derry preview origins of Pennywise

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An Air Force personnel salutes while his comrade stands too him.

It wouldn’t beryllium Halloween without everyone’s slightest favourite clown, Pennywise. In grant of nan holiday, Max has unveiled 8 first-look images from It: Welcome to Derry, HBO’s upcoming It prequel bid from Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs.

Set successful 1962, It: Welcome to Derry is group 27 years earlier nan events of Muschietti’s It. The bid explores interludes written by Mike Hanlon, who interviews older group — specifically, his father, Will — who lived successful nan municipality successful nan 1960s. Will and his Air Force buddies opened The Black Spot, a nightclub that catered to Black patrons.

In 1962, a achromatic supremacist group known arsenic nan Maine Legion of White Decency burned nan Black Spot down, sidesplitting respective group inside. Through his investigation, Mike learns that Pennywise appeared connected that tragic nighttime successful 1962. Instead of a clown, Pennywise showed up arsenic a elephantine vertebrate and snatched a unfortunate successful its talons.

“Twenty-seven years is nan dormant play of Pennywise,” wrote nan Muschiettis successful an email to EW. “It’s a different portion of American history pinch a caller group of fears for children, arsenic good arsenic adults having successful mind nan costs of nan Cold War. Our baseline is 1962, but we do a fewer jumps to nan past … Every 27 years erstwhile It appears, it’s rhythm is marked by 2 catastrophic events, 1 astatine nan opening and 1 successful nan end. We are utilizing nan Black Spot arsenic an arena successful which galore stories are built around.”

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It: Welcome to Derry stars Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso. Bill Skarsgård returns arsenic Pennywise from nan It films. The prequel bid will research Pennywise’s origins. Character specifications stay hidden. However, Adepo is wearing a subject azygous pinch nan nametag “Hanlon,” suggesting he could beryllium playing Will Hanlon.

Andy will nonstop 4 of nan 9 episodes. Based connected Stephen King’s It, Welcome to Derry premieres connected HBO and streams connected Max successful 2025.

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