‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Surprise Halloween Episode Drops on HBO Max
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HBO has surprise-released a 30-minute Halloween special for “It: Welcome to Derry”, set hundreds of years before the series’ events and Pennywise’s arrival. The release adds to the prequel series, which is based on Stephen King’s novel and expands on the two “It” films.
The first season is set in 1962 and follows Derry residents’ earlier encounters with the shape-shifting clown. HBO renewed the series for a second season in August; it will move back to 1935, during the Great Depression, and centre on the Bradley Gang massacre, when bank robbers stop in Derry to buy ammunition and encounter horror.
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In short
- HBO released a surprise 30-minute Halloween special.
- The episode is set centuries before Pennywise.
- Season 2 will take place in Depression-era Derry.
How this story developed
- 14 minutes ago HBO has surprise-released a 30-minute Halloween special for “It: Welcome to Derry”, set hundreds of years before the series’ events and Pennywise’s arrival.
Explained simply
It: Welcome to Derry is a television prequel to Stephen King’s It, a story about a shape-shifting creature that takes the form of a clown and terrorises the town of Derry. The series expands on the earlier It films by exploring the town’s history and residents’ encounters with the creature.
The first season takes place in 1962, while a planned second season is set in 1935, during the Great Depression. It draws on the Bradley Gang massacre, a real event in Derry’s fictional past in which bank robbers arrive in town and encounter horror.
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