According to Deadline, Andy and Barbara Muschietti (It, Mama) and Jason Fuchs’ (Ed, The Passage) HBO Max original series Welcome to Derry has cast Madeleine Stowe (Revenge, Bad Girls) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil, Instinct). The series is a prequel to Andy Muschiettie’s It films based on the Stephen King (The Mist, The Shining) novel of the same name.

Rider has been cast as a series regular and Stowe will join as a recurring guest. The series expands on the It universe established in the New Line franchise.

The cast features James Remar (Sex and the City, Dexter), Taylour Paige (Hit the Floor, Zola), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason, Shining Girls), and Jovan Adepo (Sorry For Your Loss, The Stand).

Fuchs will write the first episode and serve as showrunner with Brad Caleb Kane (The Banker, Aladdin). Welcome to Derry is produced by HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television and is executive produced by Fuchs, Kane, Shelley Meals (King & Maxwell, Shadow and Bone), Dan Lin (The Lego Movie, Sherlock Holmes), and Roy Lee (Barbarian, The Ring).

HBO Max announced on April 13 that it will be rebranding as Max on May 23 of this year as well as adding a three-tier subscription system. The rebrand comes as a result of the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The subscription tiers are Max Ad Light at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, Max Ad Free at $15.99 a month or $149.99 a year, and Max Ultimate Ad Free at $19.99 a month and $199.99 a year. Max Ad Light allows for two concurrent streams with ads, Max Ad Free allows for two concurrent streams without ads, and Max Ultimate Ad Free allows for 100 offline downloads and four concurrent streams with up to 4k resolution without ads.

Stowes is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Gersh. Rider is represented by Fox Rothschild and CESD Talent Agency.

No details regarding the story or characters have been revealed.

Muschietti’s It premiered on September 8, 2017 and was followed by the sequel, It: Chapter Two, on September 6, 2019.