The Max streaming service has released their official 2024/2025 Preview video this afternoon, notably giving us our very FIRST look at “Welcome to Derry,” their IT prequel series.
According to the video, the upcoming series will premiere sometime in 2025. The series will be a prequel to the two Stephen King-based IT movies from Andy Muschietti.
“This ain’t America, this is Derry,” a character ominously says in this first footage from “Welcome to Derry,” which features kids on bikes, a red balloon, and a ghoulish entity.
Yup, that sounds like King’s IT to us!
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs are on board the Pennywise prequel project from Warner Bros. Television, with Muschietti set to direct several episodes.
Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (“Watchmen”), Chris Chalk (“Perry Mason”), James Remar (Oppenheimer), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil) star.
Variety had reported last year, “The series will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One, the 2017 film based on the Stephen King horror novel. The story is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.”
Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman, Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Brad Caleb Kane (“Moonhaven,” “Black Sails,” “Fringe”) will serve as co-showrunners for the prequel series.
Published in 1986, Stephen King’s massive novel was of course first turned into a mini-series in 1990, with Tim Curry playing the role later played by Bill Skarsgård in the movies.
The tale centers on the town of Derry, Maine, where a group of friends called the Losers’ Club battle Pennywise the killer clown first as kids, and then 27 years later as adults.
Max’s preview video, which you can watch below, also features first-look footage from “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School,” which will continue the horror approach of “Original Sin.”
The video also promotes other upcoming shows that are of interest to horror fans, including “The Last of Us” Season 2, “True Detective: Night Country,” and “The Penguin.”
“The best is yet to come,” the streaming service promises.
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