According to Variety, It: Welcome to Derry co-creator Andy Muschietti (The Brave and the Bold, Mama) shares an update on the second season of the HBO Max horror series. “We’re very excited, we’re in the writers’ room right now,” Muschietti confirms to Variety. the new season of the series will adapt around one of the interludes in Stephen King’s (The Long Walk, The Shining) It novel which is set in 1935.
“There’s gonna be a lot of that depression-era hustling in the air in our characters. Everybody’s trying to get by and survive the circumstances. They are gonna do crazy things,” Muschietti says via Variety . “And of course, the social, cultural, horrible things that were happening in the era, too. We’re not going to skip those. They are the very center and the heart of our story.”
As per Variety, Muschietti states that the second season will be aesthetic different than what fans are used to. “In this case, on the surface, Derry is a graveyard almost. It’s a carcass of something because people are depleted, poor, tired, jobless, homeless. The kids don’t have a suburban, comforting life, Muschietti said. They’re in a very different situation. Some of them are orphans or runaways, and so the environment is pretty bleak. But there’s always the aspect of hope that is always there, burning, and it’s what keeps our new group going.”
Variety reports that Muschietti began exploring the world of Derry in the 2017 film and its 2019 sequel he expressed to Variety his three season plan. “I realized there was a hidden story there, and that Stephen King was leaving crumbs that could guide us somewhere. It’s a story told backwards.” Muschietti still has his eyes set on adapting more King stories.
“I cannot talk too much about it because some of them are active projects. One that I did touch that’s not a current project, but I would love to go back to at some point is ‘The Juant,’ which is a short story that blew my mind when I read it. I was 14 or something,” Muschietti says of the short story in King’s via Variety “Skeleton Crew” collection. “It just completely shattered me.”
It: Welcome to Derry is available to stream on HBO Max.