“Welcome To Derry”: Andy Muschietti Announces Begin Filming for “It” Prequel Series

Andy Muschietti announced the start of filming of “Welcome To Derry”, the prequel series of “It”, which will premiere on Max the new platform that will change the identity of HBO Max after the agreement between Warner Bros and Discovery.The Argentine director along with his sister and producer Barbara Muschietti are in charge of this new production, after having made the two films (2017 and 2019) that adapted the story of the homonymous novel by Stephen King. This year, while preparing the premiere of “The Flash”, both work on the recordings of this fiction also focused on the fictional town (located in Maine, United States) where the horror was unleashed in the form of a clown and that calls itself Pennywise.The post that revealed the start of filming.The series will be temporarily located decades before the events we saw in the films, so marked by the remembered scene of the boat of Georgie, the boy of the yellow pilot. As for the plot, it is very likely that these are new stories with new characters. The truth is that King’s novel still has “a lot of cloth to cut.” If you look, the book has around 1,200 pages, where in addition to the story adapted on the screen, it develops other stories that happened in Derry related to the appearance of the creature, which returns in cycles of every 27 years. So the episodes will be able to tell their origin. However, Bill Skarsgård, the actor who played the clown in the films, said that so far he had not been summoned to participate. So we don’t know if it will be part of the project.Andy and Báraba Muschietti at the presentation of “It chapter 2”On the other hand, some artists who will lead the project are known, such as Taylour Paige (“Zola”), Jovan Adepo (“Babylon”), James Remar (“The Warriors”) and Chris Chalk (“Perry Mason”). The series has the approval of King himself, who let’s not forget has a cameo in Part Two. A few months ago, alongside the production announcement statement, he celebrated the project with these words: “I’m excited that the story of Derry, Maine’s most haunted city, continues, and I’m glad Andy Muschietti is going to oversee the terrifying festivities, along with a group of experts that includes his talented sister, Barbara.” At the moment the premiere date of the series is unknown, but it is estimated that it will reach the platform in 2024.

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