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The first season of IT: Welcome to Derry has officially ended, and fans are more than satisfied. While the series based on Stephen King’s novel entitled IT has not yet been ordered up for a second season, plans are already in the works.
In an interview with Deadline, series creator/IT and IT: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti confirmed as much. “His [Pennywise’s] experience of time is non-linear. How is that and why, that’s a whole exploration that we intend to flesh out during the next two seasons, but that was pretty much [the idea] from the beginning,” Muschietti told the outlet. “The pitch to Stephen King was we’re going to tell a story backwards, and it has to do with that hint.”
Specifically, Muschietti tells Deadline that further seasons intend to answer the question of, “Is he [Pennywise] going backwards in a linear way, or is he omnipresent, and how does that affect the story that we already know?”
By this point, you’re probably well aware of just how powerful Pennywise is. The shape-shifting, child-eating entity seems to know no bounds when it comes to his terrifying abilities. We know IT awakens every 27 years for a feeding cycle, and the series will go back in time to explore those various periods. The idea of going backwards to observe the havoc he has wreaked over centuries is a concept that should excite IT fans everywhere. Pennywise during WWI? The Industrial Revolution? The possibilities are limitless.
The first season of IT: Welcome to Derry takes place in 1962. IT (2017) took us to 1989, while IT: Chapter Two leapt to 2016. Plans for further seasons would bring audiences to 1935 and 1908, with potential to go back even further.
“There’s so much,” Muschietti continued. “We’re going to learn a lot of things about it. We are going to know more about the Bob Gray of things, and we are going to know more about Ingrid, because Ingrid was around in the 30s. Our second season happens in 1935, in theory. I think it’s a pretty tragic character. She’s a very specific, very unique character, because she’s a victim, but she’s a perpetrator too. She’s tricked into thinking that her dad is still there somewhere in the shadows of that monster, and she wants to liberate him, but the only way to see him and try to liberate him is by creating all these baits [and] all this pain, because she knows that he will show up.”
Stay tuned to Dread Central as we learn more details about plans for further IT: Welcome to Derry seasons. And don’t forget to stream the first season on HBO Max now.
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