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'IT: Welcome to Derry' Fans Get Excited. We Have Season 2 Details

Season 2 will center on the Bradley Gang massacre as the prequel expands Stephen King’s IT universe after a record-breaking HBO Max debut.

  • Warner Bros. announced this week that the horror series 'IT: Welcome to Derry' has been greenlit for a second season, building on the success of its debut on HBO Max.
  • The prequel to the 2017 and 2019 'IT' movies shattered debut viewership records on HBO Max, with executive producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti calling the expansion 'an absolute privilege.'
  • Set in 1935 during the Great Depression, Season 2 will focus on the 'bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang,' a group of bank robbers who encounter unimaginable horror in Derry.
  • Andy Muschietti teased that the story will be told backward within three seasons, aligning with 'the three critical cycles of Pennywise, which are 1962, 1935, and 1908.'
  • Fans have been wanting more since the Season 1 finale last December, with actress Taylour Paige noting the show's impact and calling Pennywise 'an icon.
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The HBO Max series, It: Welcome to Derry 2, will be set in 1935 and already has a confirmed plot. Here we tell you all the details. After its successful first season, It: Welcome to Derry 2 was renewed by HBO. In the new installment it will be further deepened in the IT universe configured by Andy Muschietti, who adapted Stephen King's novel for television. What will it be about: Welcome to Derry 2? This is his confirmed plot Through a statement…

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Brooke Palmer/HBO Everyone’s favorite dancing and child-devouring clown, Pennywise, will return for a second season of HBO’s popular It prequel series, Welcome To Derry. According to Deadline, it was only a matter of time before the network was going to renew the series that expands the It universe masterfully crafted in two films from Andy and Barbara Muschetti, and that HBO was waiting to learn more about where season two was going creatively …

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'IT: Welcome to Derry' fans get excited. We have Season 2 details

The horror series is based on Stephen King's novel and serves as a prequel to the 2017 and 2019 "IT" movies.

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