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Bill Skarsgård reprises his role as the murderous clown, and there are several Stephen King Easter eggs.
Credit: HBO
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.
(Some spoilers below for IT and IT: Chapter Two.)
As previously reported, 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. Bill (Jaeden Lieberher) loses his little brother, Georgie, to Pennywise, and the group decides to take on Pennywise and drive him into early hibernation, where he will hopefully starve. But Beverly (Sophia Lillis) has a vision warning that Pennywise will return on schedule in 27 years, and they must be ready to fight him anew.
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.
One event that did make it into IT: Chapter Two was the burning down of the Black Spot—a nightclub Mike's (Chosen Jacobs and Isaiah Mustafa) father, Will, opened—by local white supremacists. That tragedy will also appear in Welcome to Derry. The series is set in 1962, although Muschietti said earlier this year that there are plans for three seasons, with subsequent settings in 1935 and 1908, respectively. That's consistent with Pennywise's 27-year cycle, and as Muschietti said, "There's a reason why the story is told backwards."
A killer clown
Taylour Paige plays Charlotte Hanlon and Jovan Adepo plays Leroy Hanlon, a Black couple who move to Derry with their son Will right when a young boy disappears, setting off a series of very bad things—and we're not just talking about the racism. Skarsgård reprises his role as Pennywise the Clown, while Chris Chalk plays a young Dick Halloran, a name King fans will recognize as the telepathic chef from The Shining and Doctor Sleep, who also appears in the novel's flashbacks. The main cast also includes Madeline Stowe, James Remar, Stephen Rider, and Rudy Mancuso.
The trailer opens with scenes of a seemingly wholesome town as the Hanlon family moves in. But there's something dark beneath that perfect Americana surface. "Things happened here," a girl named Lilly says in a voiceover. "But we don't really talk about it. No one does." (And yes, that's a bus from Shawshank prison featured briefly in the footage, a nod to The Shawshank Redemption.) Another group of kids resolves to find out what happened to their missing classmate, which leads them inevitably to the town's sewers.
Halloran also gets his moment in the trailer, with reference to "25 confirmed deaths, most of them children." We see a meteor crash to Earth (book readers will know the significance). Cue Pennywise's menacing laughter and our first glimpse of the killer clown behind his signature red balloon. And then the true horrors are unleashed. Frankly, this looks scary and is a fitting prequel to the films.
It: Welcome to Derry premieres on October 26, 2025, on HBO and will also stream on HBO Max.
Credit: HBO
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.
(Some spoilers below for IT and IT: Chapter Two.)
As previously reported, 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. Bill (Jaeden Lieberher) loses his little brother, Georgie, to Pennywise, and the group decides to take on Pennywise and drive him into early hibernation, where he will hopefully starve. But Beverly (Sophia Lillis) has a vision warning that Pennywise will return on schedule in 27 years, and they must be ready to fight him anew.
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.
One event that did make it into IT: Chapter Two was the burning down of the Black Spot—a nightclub Mike's (Chosen Jacobs and Isaiah Mustafa) father, Will, opened—by local white supremacists. That tragedy will also appear in Welcome to Derry. The series is set in 1962, although Muschietti said earlier this year that there are plans for three seasons, with subsequent settings in 1935 and 1908, respectively. That's consistent with Pennywise's 27-year cycle, and as Muschietti said, "There's a reason why the story is told backwards."
A killer clown
Taylour Paige plays Charlotte Hanlon and Jovan Adepo plays Leroy Hanlon, a Black couple who move to Derry with their son Will right when a young boy disappears, setting off a series of very bad things—and we're not just talking about the racism. Skarsgård reprises his role as Pennywise the Clown, while Chris Chalk plays a young Dick Halloran, a name King fans will recognize as the telepathic chef from The Shining and Doctor Sleep, who also appears in the novel's flashbacks. The main cast also includes Madeline Stowe, James Remar, Stephen Rider, and Rudy Mancuso.
The trailer opens with scenes of a seemingly wholesome town as the Hanlon family moves in. But there's something dark beneath that perfect Americana surface. "Things happened here," a girl named Lilly says in a voiceover. "But we don't really talk about it. No one does." (And yes, that's a bus from Shawshank prison featured briefly in the footage, a nod to The Shawshank Redemption.) Another group of kids resolves to find out what happened to their missing classmate, which leads them inevitably to the town's sewers.
Halloran also gets his moment in the trailer, with reference to "25 confirmed deaths, most of them children." We see a meteor crash to Earth (book readers will know the significance). Cue Pennywise's menacing laughter and our first glimpse of the killer clown behind his signature red balloon. And then the true horrors are unleashed. Frankly, this looks scary and is a fitting prequel to the films.
It: Welcome to Derry premieres on October 26, 2025, on HBO and will also stream on HBO Max.
