It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Gets Timeline & Plot Details

Andy Muschietti pulled back the curtain on It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 during a recent TV panel. The creator and director teased a fresh era for the HBO prequel, confirming the next chapter draws from a shadowy corner of Stephen King‘s source novel that fans have long wondered about.

Andy Muschietti talks about It: Welcome to Derry Season 2

Andy Muschietti revealed during Deadline‘s Contenders TV panel that It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 will draw from a less-explored subplot in Stephen King’s 1986 source novel. The HBO prequel series creator and director confirmed the second season jumps to 1935 and centers on the Bradley Gang storyline.

“It’s 1935, we’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said. “For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that, not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere, and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens,” he further noted.

King drew inspiration from a real Maine true-crime incident for the subplot. “The Bradley Gang is based on the Brady Gang, which is a real-life gang of robbers that were executed in the streets of Bangor, Maine,” Muschietti said. He added that the season’s central event will be “the massacre of a Bradley gang.”

Muschietti also outlined plans extending into a potential third season. “There’s like three big events in Welcome to Derry Season 1, and Season 3 would be the explosion of the Kitchener Iron Works, which is a big explosion during an Easter egg hunt where a hundred kids lost their lives.”

The Depression-era setting reshapes the show’s tone significantly. “It’s fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we’re facing an era which is the Depression Era that changes dramatically the setup of things,” Muschietti stated. He noted the 1935 backdrop strips away the suburban comfort tropes, replacing them with poverty and survival as families struggle through dire circumstances across Derry.

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