Welcome To Derry Season 2’s Renewal Standing Clarified By HBO Boss

After IT: Welcome to Derry wrapped up its first season in December, there have been no bulletins relating to a second-season renewal, however HBO is lastly breaking its silence. The sequence, which is a prequel to the 2 big-screen IT movies launched in 2017 and 2019, has been a vital and business success, incomes an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In accordance with HBO CEO Casey Bloys (by way of Deadline), the way forward for Welcome to Derry is “not in limbo in any respect,” regardless of the cable community’s silence. Reasonably, government producers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti are “exhausting at work” determining potential storylines for season 2.

As soon as they provide you with a robust concept, then Bloys will completely renew the sequence. “I’d fortunately do it,” he claimed. “They should land on one thing they’re excited by creatively. We’ll be there.”

“Let me say, not in limbo in any respect. Hardly. It was an enormous success for us. Andy and Barbara are exhausting at work making an attempt to provide you with an concept for a narrative they’d wish to inform for an additional season. I’d fortunately do it. One of many challenges is, there’s not a e book that you simply’re basing it on, so it’s invention. They wish to guarantee that they’ve a narrative they’re excited to inform. So it’s not limbo apart from they should land on one thing they’re excited by creatively. We’ll be there.”

Andy, who directed IT and IT: Chapter Two, beforehand revealed that his objective is to create three seasons of Welcome to Derry, with the second installment happening 30 years earlier than the occasions of the primary season.

The Stephen King novel IT, which is taken into account one of many creator’s most iconic artistic endeavors, has been tailored a number of occasions through the years, first as an ABC miniseries in 1990 (with Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown) after which on the large display with a two-part cinematic occasion (starring Invoice Skarsgård because the titular villain).

The primary movie grossed over $700 million on the field workplace and scored an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. In contrast, the sequel was additionally successful however earned significantly much less on the field workplace, at $473 million. (Its Rotten Tomatoes rating at the moment stands at 62%.)

The success of the films led Warner Bros. to develop a prequel TV sequence known as IT: Welcome to Derry, which is about within the Sixties and tells the story of a boy who goes lacking in Derry, Maine, whereas revealing extra in regards to the origins of Pennywise.

Welcome to Derry‘s forged contains Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Matilda Lawler, Chris Chalk, Clara Stack, Amanda Christine and Mikkal Karim-Fidler.

Skarsgård additionally performed a behind-the-scenes function as an government producer alongside the Muschiettis, Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Dan Lin Roy Lee and Shelly Meals, with Fuchs and Kane serving as showrunners.

Just like the movies, Welcome to Derry has been successful for HBO, with 5.7 million viewers tuning in to the primary episode, one of many community’s highest-rated sequence premieres ever. The scores stored rising, with the finale drawing in 6.5 million viewers. A second season appeared inevitable, however a renewal by no means materialized.

Now Bloys is stepping ahead to confess that IT: Welcome to Derry season 2 will greater than seemingly be greenlit, however within the meantime, the Muschiettis have the daunting activity of making a brand new story that builds on the present lore and retains viewers excited episode after episode.

Whereas there is no renewal for IT: Welcome to Derry but, followers ought to hold a watch out for a doable announcement within the coming months.