"Director Andy Muschietti's two-film adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel IT racked up over $1 billion at the box office worldwide. Now Muschietti is back with a nine-episode prequel series for HBO, IT: Welcome to Derry, exploring the origins of Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), the ancient evil that terrorized the fictional town every 27 years. And now we have an official trailer a month before the prequel's October debut."
"set in 1989, IT essentially adapted half of King's original novel, telling the story of a group of misfit kids calling themselves "The Losers Club." The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise."
"IT: Chapter Two revisited our protagonists 27 years later, as they all returned to Derry as adults for a reunion of sorts, taking on the killer clown in a final battle-eventually emerging victorious but not without a few casualties. The two films covered much of the novel's material but omitted several key flashback passages drawn from Mike's interviews with older residents of Derry as he investigated the town's sinister history."
Andy Muschietti directed two IT films that grossed over $1 billion worldwide. He returns with a nine-episode HBO prequel, IT: Welcome to Derry, set in 1962 and focused on the origins of Pennywise the Clown. The prequel arrives a month after an official trailer release and aims to expand on events and flashbacks omitted from the films, including episodes drawn from Mike's interviews and the burning of the Black Spot nightclub by white supremacists. The films adapted roughly half of King's novel, covering the Losers Club's 1989 battles and their 27-year reunion in IT: Chapter Two. Muschietti has plans for multiple seasons.
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