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‘It' is Back and Derry-er Than Ever: HBO Series Is the Latest in Stephen King Cinematic Universe
The only other author, besides Stephen King, who can lay claim to having more of their work mined for television and film has got to be God. Show of hands of people who saw 'The Life of Chuck' earlier this year and had the 'Oh, right, that was based on a Stephen King story, of course' moment when the credits rolled. King is extremely prolific, and his myriad of tales tap into something specific about the human psyche — and most especially the innocence of childhood. Think of some of the most enduring King adaptations. 'The Shining.' 'Carrie.' 'Stand By Me.' The perspective of youth, in all its awkwardness, terror, and joy, is a persistent throughline. 'It' is the best example of this aspect of his work. The mammoth 1,000+ page 1986 novel has been memorably translated to film twice — once as the two-part Tim Curry 1990 miniseries and again as the Bill Skarsgård two-part film series (2017 and 2019). Generations of children of felt chills at the sight of rain jackets and red balloons because of these films and their source material. More from IndieWire Jay Leno Says Late Night Hosts 'Alienate' Viewers: 'I Don't Think Anybody Wants to Hear a Lecture' George Lucas Makes His First Ever Comic-Con Appearance So to make a full-fledged prequel television series out of the book makes sense. A (second) teaser for 'It: Welcome to Derry' was released July 27, which you can watch below. Warning: it may spoil whatever love you have for 'The Music Man.' What's most interesting about this trailer comes about 57 seconds in, when a bus is shown for 'Shawshank State Prison,' which is of course the setting of the King novella 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and its subsequent acclaimed film adaptation 'The Shawshank Redemption,' long listed as the No. 1 film ever by IMDb users. This puts the series not only in the same universe as the most recent 'It' films, but potentially in the same world as many other King works. The connections between King's own works have been discussed for decades — at least since the 2001 book 'The Stephen King Universe' was published. Pennywise — the titular 'It' clown — and the town of Derry are mentioned in a variety of King stories and screen translations, including 'Castle Rock,' 'The Dark Tower,' Insomnia,' 'Maximum Overdrive,' and 'Gray Matter.' Carrie White — you know, 'Carrie' — is mentioned directly in the 'It' novel. I mean, even the Overlook Hotel from 'The Shining' is mentioned in his book 'Misery.' Then King wrote his own sequel to that, 'Doctor Sleep,' which also became a movie. Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe made it on to our screens, these subtle connections between Maine's favorite author's impressive catalogue was already on full display. So, right out of the gate, to include this nod and place 'Welcome to Derry' right smack nab in the Stephen King pantheon is indeed a 'welcome' move. At Comic-Con on July 27, fans were also treated to a 10-minute preview of the new show (which has not been made available online as of this writing). According to Entertainment Weekly, the scenes — set in 1962 — follow a boy who sneaks into a movie theater, is caught, and then escapes… only to hitch a ride with a mild-mannered family that turns out to be the shape-shifting 'It.' This intro echos that of its source material, which also opens on a young boy's gruesome death at the hands of Pennywise. The eight-episode 'It: Welcome to Derry' premieres on HBO and HBO Max this October. Watch the first teaser trailer, released in May, below. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie Nicolas Winding Refn's Favorite Films: 37 Movies the Director Wants You to See
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We were already on edge anticipating it: Welcome to Derry, the HBO prequel series laying the groundwork for Stephen King's tale of a small town with a sizable demonic clown problem. But the new peek just shared in-room at San Diego Comic-Con—building off that evocative teaser from a few months back—signals it's going to be a show that interrupts your sleep on a regular basis. We saw the opening of the very first episode. It's 1962 in Derry, Maine—near Christmas, going by the snow and the decorations—and people are watching The Music Man at the local movie theater. The camera shifts from the screen (surely not by coincidence, it's the number where Howard Hill is warning the people of River City they've 'got trouble!') to the audience, and we see a kid of about 12 sitting by himself, sucking on a pacifier. He's too old for a pacifier, but that detail recedes for a bit when an usher appears and tells him to leave. 'Pity is not going to keep the lights on, Hank!' the usher snaps at the projectionist when he urges him to go easy on the pint-sized freeloader. The projectionist's daughter, who's about the same age as the pacifier kid, helps him sneak away, and he makes his way outside to the dark, frozen road. A family—dad, pregnant mom, two kids—pulls over and warmly offers to give him a ride; when they ask where 'home' is, he says, 'Anywhere but Derry.' They say they're going to Portland, and he's welcome to come along. But this is Welcome to Derry, not Escape from Derry. The kid starts to notice that there's something very off about the people who've picked him up. The little boy brags about what a great speller he is, but the words his mother flings at him to show off with keep getting creepier ('necrosis,' 'kidnapping,' 'strangulation'). Meanwhile, his sister opens a plastic container marked 'liver' and starts snacking on it… raw. Then she sticks her bloody hand in the pacifier kid's face. The kid starts frantically jiggling the door handle, but it's no use. The freakiness rapidly escalates inside the car—and outside, as the car cruises by the same 'Welcome to Derry' sign for the second time—but nothing prepares you for what comes next. The mom goes into labor, and there's a grotesque shot of her belly pulsating in such a way that you know what's coming out isn't human. And, yes, there's a gruesome birth in the front seat; it produces a monstrous infant with wings and a truly awful face. After it chaotically zooms around the inside of the car with its umbilical cord still attached, it clamps its terrible gaze on the kid and pounces on him. The car window breaks, and we see the pacifier soaring through the air and into the water near the road… then drifting into a sewer tunnel, exactly the kind of place our friend Pennywise the clown likes to hang out. It's a deeply unsettling sequence, and it sets up so many elements that It: Welcome to Derry will explore. While good people do live in Derry, like the projectionist and his daughter, there's also something festering just below the surface—a force capable of supernatural illusions and expert mindfuckery that takes special delight in tormenting children. This may be the small screen, but the frights will not be diminished. After the footage, Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti—the sibling team behind the recent It movies and the co-developers of this new spin-off, with Andy directing several episodes—came out to talk more about the series. The genesis of Welcome to Derry came when the Muschiettis were working on the movies. They were exhausted, as was star Bill Skarsgård, when they were done—but as Andy recalled, 'We always fantasized about doing the origin story, how 'It' becomes Pennywise, which is one of the big mysteries in the book … We loved [the idea of a] TV series because of the opportunities that gives you: a larger canvas to tell the story, more characters, more nuances, and more complicated arcs.' Barbara added that when they took the idea to Stephen King, it was his idea to go back in time, following Pennywise's 27-year cycle, to 1962. 'There's a reason why it goes back in time, but we can't let you know yet,' Andy teased. 'At the end of the book, nobody knows what the hell 'It' is. What does 'It' want? Who is Bob Gray [Pennywise's real name]? How did it all happen? We are going to ruin this,' he joked, but noted that while Welcome to Derry will answer some of the book's long-standing questions, it will raise new mysteries too. A second teaser trailer was also shown in the room at SDCC. It expands on the first teaser with more distressing imagery—'missing' posters, a Shawshank State Prison bus, a red balloon, people behaving in unfriendly ways, the tiniest glimpse of Pennywise—and will be released to the public, though a date wasn't given. It: Welcome to Derry debuts this October on HBO and HBO Max. It will run nine episodes and stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk (playing Dick Halloran, a character who appears in the It novel but is best known for The Shining), James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso, and—of course—Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise. Behind the scenes, it was developed by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti (It and It Chapter Two) and Jason Fuchs (It Chapter Two), with Andy Muschietti handling directing duties on multiple episodes. Want more io9 news? 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