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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Creator Says Season 2 Will ‘Not’ Shy Away From the ‘Horrible’ Cultural Themes of the 1930s: It’s the ‘Heart of Our Story’
Andy Muschietti, co-creator of HBO's "It: Welcome to Derry," has confirmed that Season 2 will be set in 1935 and will draw on the Bradley Gang Massacre interlude from Stephen King's "It" novel. He told Variety the writers' room is currently active on the new season, which will not shy away from the harsher social and cultural realities of the Depression era, describing them as central to the story rather than background detail.
Muschietti said the new season will feel visually and tonally distinct from Season 1's suburban Cold War setting, portraying Derry as depleted, poor and populated by orphans and runaways, though hope will remain a driving thread for the young characters. The 1935 timeline sits 27 years before Season 1's 1962 setting, and Muschietti previously outlined a planned three-season structure covering 1962, 1935 and 1908, with a family bloodline linking the different eras. He co-created the series with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, building on the Derry mythology he established in the 2017 and 2019 "It" films.
In short
- Season 2 of "It: Welcome to Derry" set in 1935
- Storyline centres on the Bradley Gang Massacre from King's novel
- Creator says 1930s social themes won't be softened
Explained simply
Stephen King’s novel It centres on Derry, a fictional town in Maine, where a supernatural evil returns in cycles and threatens its children. Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs created the TV series It: Welcome to Derry, which expands on the town’s history and the mythology explored in the 2017 and 2019 films.
The series moves between different periods in Derry’s past, with a family bloodline connecting the stories. Its first season is set in 1962; the planned timeline also includes 1935 and 1908, years before the events of the films. The 1930s setting places the story during the Great Depression, a period of widespread poverty and hardship in the United States.
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