{"id":635506,"date":"2026-04-28T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:40:11","slug":"depression-era-bank-robbers-hit-derry-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635506\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression-Era Bank Robbers Hit &#8220;Derry&#8221; Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/depression-era-bank-robbers-hit-derry-season-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"HBO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/depression-era-bank-robbers-hit-derry-season-2.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"depression-era-bank-robbers-hit-derry-season-2\"\/><\/a>HBO<\/p>\n<p>Andy Muschietti has offered new details about the second season of \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d during a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/it-welcome-to-derry-creator-andy-muschietti-interview-1236872677\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> TV panel for the HBO series.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the new season will jump back in time to the 1930s, specifically 1935, and center on the Bradley Gang storyline which is an underexplored subplot within the Stephen King nobel:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 1935, we\u2019re now working on it, and it\u2019s so much fun. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds the season\u2019s central event will be \u201cthe massacre of a Bradley gang\u201d and King himself drew inspiration from a real Maine true-crime incident for the group \u2013 the Brady Gang, who were executed in the streets of Bangor.<\/p>\n<p>The shift from the 1960s of the first season to a Depression-era setting means the show\u2019s tone will be quite different as well, saying it \u201cchanges, dramatically, the setup of things\u201d and strips away \u201csuburban comfort tropes\u201d as families struggle through dire circumstances across Derry.<\/p>\n<p>As previously indicated, the big event of a potential third season would be the explosion of the Kitchener Iron Works, a massive detonation during an Easter egg hunt in which a \u201chundred kids lost their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO Andy Muschietti has offered new details about the second season of \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-635506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635506","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=635506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}