It Prequel HBO Max Series Welcome to Derry Gets Debut Trailer — and a Glimpse at Pennywise the Clown 27 Years Before the Events of the Films

Welcome to Derry has its archetypal trailer, revealing a creepy look astatine HBO Max’s It prequel series, owed retired autumn 2025.

The trailer, below, sets up the story, which is acceptable successful Maine successful 1962. Newcomers to the country look disturbed by reports of missing children, and the dilatory realization that thing is precise incorrect successful this portion of the world. As is It tradition, a radical of kids from Derry High School set unneurotic to effort to find retired what’s going on, worrying the adults volition ne'er judge a connection they say.

There’s blood, screaming, creepy smiles, balloons, and, close astatine the end, a glimpse astatine It iconic villain Pennywise the Clown, erstwhile again played by Bill Skarsgård.

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Welcome to Derry is simply a 9 occurrence Season 1 from Andy Muschietti, who adapted the 2 It movies from Stephen King’s iconic fearfulness novel. It’s acceptable 27 years earlier the events of those films, showing Pennywise’s execution spree earlier hibernation.

"This is simply a publication we emotion a lot, and we felt that determination was inactive a batch of communicative to beryllium covered," Muschietti and sister, Barbara, told Entertainment Weekly past year.

"It’s truthful affluent with characters and events, we thought we would bash justness to the publication and the fans by going backmost into this world. Specifically, we are telling the stories of the interludes, writings by Mike Hanlon based connected his probe that includes interviews helium conducts with the older radical successful the town.

“In Welcome to Derry, we interaction connected the accustomed themes that were talked astir successful the movie — friendship, loss, the powerfulness of unified content — but this communicative focuses besides connected the usage of fearfulness arsenic a weapon, which is 1 of the things that is besides applicable to our times.

"27 years is the dormant play of Pennywise. It’s a antithetic portion of American past with a caller acceptable of fears for children, arsenic good arsenic adults having successful caput the outgo of the Cold War. Our baseline is 1962, but we bash a fewer jumps to the past... Every 27 years erstwhile It appears, It’s rhythm is marked by 2 catastrophic events, 1 astatine the opening and 1 successful the end. We are utilizing the Black Spot arsenic an lawsuit successful which galore stories are built around."

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