HBO Max is developing an It prequel series for their streaming service with the tentative title Welcome to Derry.

HBO Max is developing an It prequel series that is tentatively titled Welcome to Derry. The series will explore the origin story of Pennywise the Clown as well as the dawn of the 27-year curse that haunts the small Maine town of Derry.

Welcome to Derry will begin in the 1960s, leading up to the events of It. Andy Muschiettie, who directed the first two films, is attached to the series as an executive producer along with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs.

There’s no word on whether anyone from either It movie will make an appearance. Nor is it clear that this show has been greenlit. But at this point, it’s safe to say, without trepidation, that a writing room is being/has been convened for the project.

Financially, bolstering the It franchise with another addition makes sense. The first It is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time and It Chapter Two is no scrub either, weighing in at 11th place.

Previously Skarsgård told Entertainment Weekly before It: Chapter Two premiered that he’d love to get back into the character again, but that the “approach” would have to be just right.”It [It: Chapter 3] would have to be the right type of approach to it,” Skarsgård said. “The book ends where the second movie ends, so that is the final chapter of this story. There is this interesting aspect of going back in time before all this happened,” he went on to say it would be a “freestanding story, but obviously within the same universe. So, there might be something interesting out of it. I think it would be fun,” he finished.

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