Stephen King's IT Prequel Series WELCOME TO DERRY Casts Madeleine Stowe and Stephen Rider

HBO’s new IT prequel collection Welcome To Derry has added two new members to the solid, which incorporates Madeleine Stowe (12 Monkeys, The Last of the Mohicans, Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil).

They be part of the beforehand solid Taylour Paige (Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Jovan Adepo (Babylon, Watchmen), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), and James Remar (Oppenheimer, Megalopolis). There’s nonetheless no phrase on who any of the actors are taking part in.

The official logline for the collection states, “Set in the world of Stephen King’s ‘It’ universe, ‘Welcome to Derry’ is based on King’s ‘It’ novel and expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films ‘It’ and ‘It Chapter Two.’”

The collection is being developed by showrunners Jason Fuchs (It: Chapter II) and Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice), who will even government produce the collection.

When beforehand speaking concerning the mythology of the story, Muschietti mentioned, “There is a whole mythology to the book though…Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. It [aka Pennywise] has been on Earth for millions of years. He’s been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material. It’s always exciting to think of eventually exploring this mythology. It’s very exciting. But, for now, there’s nothing on the table.”

While not confirmed, I believe that the collection will inform the story of The Black Spot, which was a significant location in Derry that’s talked about within the motion pictures and Stephen King’s novel. The Black Spot was a nightclub began by Mike Hanlon’s dad, Will, and a few of his associates. It was a spot for black troopers from the close by Army base to go.

The Black Spot was burned to the bottom by the Maine Legion of White Decency. One of the folks inside was a younger Dick Hallorann from The Shining, who labored within the membership’s kitchen. Hallorann managed to get out alive and he ultimately ended up working at The Overlook Hotel, the place he finally met his demise.

There are some nice prequel tales to inform with Pennywise as a result of the shapeshifting creature has been in Derry, killing folks for a really very long time. “It arrived on Earth in a massive cataclysmic event similar to an asteroid impact, landing in a location in North America that would eventually become Derry, Maine. Once people settled over this location, It adopted its usual pattern of a 27-30 year hibernation, waking to kill and eat. Each awakening and return to hibernation is sometimes marked by a violent act, such as a mass murder or weather event. In the period between, a series of child murders occurring in Derry are never solved. It is outwardly explained that a series of murders, no matter how gruesome, don’t get reported if they happen in the small town. However, the real reason is that the influence of It prevents anyone from investigating too deeply.”

Here’s the timeline for It, which options a number of tales {that a} prequel may discover:

1715 – 1716: IT painfully awakes.
1740 – 1743: IT begins a three-year reign of terror that culminates within the disappearance of over 300 settlers from Derry Township (just like the misplaced Roanoke Colony, which was based as a logging city.)
1769 – 1770: IT awakes once more.
1851: IT awakes when a person named John Markson poisons his circle of relatives, then commits suicide by consuming a white nightshade mushroom, inflicting an excruciating loss of life.
1876 – 1879: IT awakes, then returns to hibernation after murdering a gaggle of lumberjacks who had been later discovered close to the Kenduskeag Stream.
1904: IT awakes when a lumberjack named Claude Heroux murders a dozen males in a bar with only one axe. Heroux was promptly pursued by a mob of townsfolk and hung.
1906: IT returns to hibernation when the Kitchener Ironworks explode, killing 108 folks, 88 of whom had been youngsters at an Easter egg hunt.
1929: IT awakes when a gaggle of Derry residents ambushes and kills the Bradley Gang, a gaggle of robbers and murderers. The city, together with its police chief, pretends it by no means occurred. However, a witness later recounts the story to Mike Hanlon, together with seeing a clown in farmer’s apparel collaborating within the slaying.
1930: IT returns to hibernation when the Maine Legion of White Decency, a Northern counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan, burns down “The Black Spot”, a nightclub recognized to cater to African-Americans on the close by military base. IT seems on the location as an enormous hen with balloons on its wings.