{"id":242695,"date":"2025-10-27T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:14:07","slug":"welcome-to-derry-creators-explain-premieres-big-shock-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242695\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Derry’ Creators Explain Premiere\u2019s Big Shock Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe following contains spoilers for the first episode of HBO<\/a>\u2018s It: Welcome to Derry<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tOh my God, they killed Teddy! <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Phil! <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Susie! <\/p>\n

\n\tThe season premiere of It: Welcome to Derry introduced a new young Losers Club that was seemingly going to be the focal point of the season moving forward and then promptly seemingly murdered several of them in a chaotic climactic scene that was set in a movie theater.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe surprise slaughter followed an opening sequence which killed off yet another young character \u2014 Matty \u2014 which perhaps lulled the audience into thinking something along the lines of: OK, that was similar to what happened in the first It movie, where Pennywise killed one child in the opening, now the rest of the kids are going to be safe. But they weren\u2019t. Instead, the show\u2019s creators pulled a bunch of Barbs.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilmmakers Andy Muschietti<\/a> and Barbara Muschietti<\/a> spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the opening scene and that movie theater sequence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, it\u2019s exactly as you said, you want to create an event that that gives the audience a sense that if these kids were smoked at the end of the first episode, nothing is sacred,\u201d Andy Muschietti said. \u201cIn this world, no one will be safe. So, technically, that was the intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlso, it responds to the idea of subverting certain aspects,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe did two movies already. One thing that we didn\u2019t want was to \u2014 given that we\u2019re using the same tone and the style as the movies \u2014 is get people too familiar [with the story mechanics]. We really wanted to create a subversion to get people excited. It has to do also with raising the volume a little in terms of intensity and spectacle.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs for whether the kids are truly dead, that\u2019s supposed to be slightly unclear moving forward. But the answer for now is: Seemingly, yes (one is, at the very least, short an arm). <\/p>\n

\n\tWe also asked the duo a somewhat philosophical question about the opening sequence with Matty trapped in the car, being carried off to his doom: What is happening in reality during this? Pennywise can take on various forms and create illusions. But he doesn\u2019t, presumably, have a car. So if you\u2019re an observer standing on the side of that road, what are you seeing happen to Matty when he\u2019s going through this? <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnswering that question would somehow kill the magic,\u201d Andy Muschietti said. \u201cBecause there\u2019s always the lingering concept that we believe in that It exists because the kids believe what they see. So it\u2019s a feedback between believing in something that you see and creating something that you believe. It\u2019s an abstraction, but that\u2019s really one of the strong themes in the book. There\u2019s a point where the Losers Club in [the book wonder], \u2018Does this exist because it\u2019s real or because we believe in it?\u2019 So that\u2019s a question that I can\u2019t answer as an external viewer. Would you see Matty flying in an invisible car? Or it was all in his head? Or was there actually a manifestation of the car? That\u2019s a big question and I\u2019m not brave enough to to answer it because it is one of the great enigmas in the book that has to be unsolved.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe then added, \u201cNobody has ever asked me that question, and it really made me think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, in case you\u2019re wondering where was Pennywise himself was during this episode, the filmmakers are intentionally holding the killer clown back a bit. As Andy Muschietti explained during our previous chat<\/a>, \u201cWe did \u2018less is more\u2019 for half the show, but then we did \u2018more is more.\u2019 The idea behind the delayed appearance is the build up of expectation. The audience doesn\u2019t know that they want it, but I think it creates a very special feeling. When and where the clown is going to appear was a game that I wanted to play with the audience.\u201d <\/p>\n

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