IT: Welcome to Derry

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Title: IT: Welcome to Derry

Genre: Mystery, Drama

First aired: 2025-10-26

Creator: Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs

Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider

Overview: Prequel to IT beginning in 1960s also covering origins of Pennywise the Clown.
 
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Not sure how it can be a prequel to IT if it begins in the 1960's, considering the story for the original novel began in the 1950's.

That said, if you read the book there is a ton of room for other IT stories: the trapper, the Black Spot, the shootout. But AFAIK, nothing happened in Derry in the 1960's.

Like, specifically the novel mentions something about a roughly 27 year cycle, where pretty much nothing happens in the interim.

Either way, I thought the movies failed to capture anything about what made the novel scary, instead relying on the cheapest kind of jump-scare bullshit. So im sure this series will be more of that.
 
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I'd be interested to see what they make of it. Bill Skarsgard is still Pennywise in this and he was the highlight of the films. I'm atleast interested in an episode or two unless its just painful. Im curious if they weave in The Mist with the military angle and seemingly showing it

Also apparently each of the 3 planned seasons is set in a different year: 1962, 1935 and 1908 each being based on the interlude chapters in It.
 
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Apparently each season goes back 27 years and hits the big events like the Black Spot, Bradley Gang, and the Ironworks
 
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I'd be interested to see what they make of it. Bill Skarsgard is still Pennywise in this and he was the highlight of the films. I'm atleast interested in an episode or two unless its just painful.

Also apparently each of the 3 planned seasons is set in a different year: 1962, 1935 and 1908 each being based on the interlude chapters in It.
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Just because Skarsgard is involved doesn't really mean anything, I mean did you watch that new Crow movie?

Yeah it's a nice idea, but come on let's face it, the two stupid ass movies they made with him as pennywise weren't exactly phenomenal. Do you honestly think this won't be like the stupid alien show, even though it's two different production companies. I'm sure it'll be great looking, but I don't exactly have high hopes.

You got a lot of blank canvas to run something on, and it could be good, but is modern Hollywood going to make the most of it without fumbling the ball?

Who knows, I'll at least say it's ambitious, but I would be surprised if we actually get three seasons. It is HBO, and I know the single season of The Outsider was surprisingly good from a King work, despite some of the changes they made, specifically with Holly being black. I just can't imagine this won't be some sort of joke, and Lord knows what they're going to do with The Black-spot. It'll be like that center's movie rolled up into IT within a singular episode.
 
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I like the book. The Fire at the Black Spot is a cool short story within it. I'm just tired with how often race relations are a major focus of current media. Remember the 60s! How could I not. It's always the 1960s. It's always the Civil Rights Movement. If it's not it's earlier and things are even worse.
 
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I like the book. The Fire at the Black Spot is a cool short story within it. I'm just tired with how often race relations are a major focus of current media. Remember the 60s! How could I not. It's always the 1960s. It's always the Civil Rights Movement. If it's not it's earlier and things are even worse.
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That's pretty much my hesitance towards this being any decent. I mean you know they're going to milk that sort of stuff for all it's worth because of our current stupid ass age in modern cinema.

And let's face it, we all know Stephen King is a raging faggot, and probably always has been since he got off the booze and blow, and I'm sure getting hit by the van didn't do him any favors either.

You know he'll be involved with the project if he's still alive, I don't think he will be able to stop himself from making certain his political viewpoints aren't inserted into the story.
 
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I've probably mentioned it before... but...
Stephen King got me into reading for fun. And I mean real novels, not the kid stuff we read when learning to read. It started with The Stand and went until I had read most of his stuff, then I moved to Piers Anthony (The Xanth novels), other fantasy (D&D stuff mostly- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman), and from there to including Sci-Fi. Basically, I credit Stephen King with convincing me that reading was cool. I also started including higher-level thinking stuff like Book of Five Rings and The Art of War.

But today... holy fuck has he cucked out. I haven't read any of his new stuff from the past... 10, maybe 15, years. Once it became apparent that pushing The Message was more important than the story he was trying to tell, I was done. Come to think of it, that's not entirely true. I did read The Institute because a friend suggested it was fucked up enough to give it a shot. But even that was like 5 years ago or something. I'll forever hold a place in my heart for some of the early stuff (The Stand, The Talisman, Eyes of the Dragon), but the man who wrote those stories is dead and gone.
 
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Having the United States military involved in the paranormal has a very Stranger Things kinda vibe to it. HBO is frontrunning Netflix on this by a few weeks making it almost counter programming.
 
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I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Despite King being a mega faggot IT has always been a great story and going into the histories every 27 years is an awesome idea.
 
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I’m definitely in the minority on that. IT was one of the few books I literally had to force myself to push through. Took me months to finish the book.
 
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Wtf, u went from Steven King TO the Xanth novels????? I loved that series when I was a kid, and equate it to kids who grew up on Harry Potter. But I just can't imagine sometime reading a bunch of kings stuff and then going to Xanth
 
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It was back in the 80's. Freshman year, I think. A guy in class was reading The Stand behind me and kept talking under his breath with "cool" or "oh no", etc. I kept asking what was going on and he wasn't having it. He said, "Read it yourself" and that was it. I got the book, read it QUICK, and fell into reading.
 
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Arden said:
Not sure how it can be a prequel to IT if it begins in the 1960's, considering the story for the original novel began in the 1950's.

That said, if you read the book there is a ton of room for other IT stories: the trapper, the Black Spot, the shootout. But AFAIK, nothing happened in Derry in the 1960's.

Like, specifically the novel mentions something about a roughly 27 year cycle, where pretty much nothing happens in the interim.

Either way, I thought the movies failed to capture anything about what made the novel scary, instead relying on the cheapest kind of jump-scare bullshit. So im sure this series will be more of that.
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The new movies took place in 1988 and "modern" day

So by cycle this is the last cycle in 1961 before the movies. The adaptions adjust the time lines but keep the 27 year loop
 
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All 1.7% of black people in Maine live in Derry.
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Yeah it's crazy how much crap they inject into these tv shows. Small sleepy northern towns have zero black people today, let alone 85 years ago.

Kings earlier stuff is okay but even then he was just copying older writers and injecting modern pop culture into the story. He borrows most of his ideas from Poe, Lovecraft, Howard, Verne, ect. Much much better writers. I think he even admitted to copying or trying to emulate Tolkien with his dark tower series. Which has a terrible ending.
 
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