{"id":115100,"date":"2025-09-03T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115100\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:17:06","slug":"it-welcome-to-derry-sets-october-premiere-date-on-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115100\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;IT: Welcome to Derry&#8217; Sets October Premiere Date on HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d will premiere October 26 on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as a prequel to Andy Muschietti\u2019s IT films and based on Mike Hanlon\u2019s historical interludes from the Stephen King novel, the nine-episode series is set in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Muschietti, who directs multiple episodes of the show, has teased that second and third seasons, if ordered by HBO, would take place in 1935 and 1908, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd returns as Pennywise the Clown, starring alongside\u00a0Taylour Paige\u00a0(The Toxic Avenger), Jovan Adepo\u00a0(\u201cThe Stand\u201d), Chris Chalk\u00a0(\u201cGotham\u201d), James Remar (\u201cDexter\u201d), Madeleine Stowe (\u201cRevenge\u201d), and Stephen Rider (\u201cDaredevil\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Alixandra Fuchs\u00a0(Boogeyman Pop), Kimberly Guerrero\u00a0(\u201cReservation Dogs\u201d), Dorian Grey\u00a0(Star Trek: Discovery),\u00a0Thomas Mitchell\u00a0(Spiral: From the Book of Saw), BJ Harrison (\u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes\u201d), Peter Outerbridge\u00a0(Saw VI),\u00a0Shane Marriott (\u201cFargo\u201d),\u00a0Chad Rook\u00a0(Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Joshua Odjick\u00a0(The Long Walk), Rudy Mancuso\u00a0(The Flash), and Morningstar Angeline\u00a0(\u201cEcho\u201d) round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift), who wrote the teleplay for the first episode, and Brad Caleb Kane (\u201cCrystal Lake\u201d) serve as co-showrunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d will premiere October 26 on HBO Max. Serving as a prequel to Andy Muschietti\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,1467,81711,344,81712],"class_list":["post-115100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-it","tag-it-welcome-to-derry","tag-movies","tag-welcome-to-derry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}