After only one week, HBO is already switching up It: Welcome to Derry 's release schedule with a strategic change to episode 2's premiere. The episode, titled "The Thing in the Dark," was written by Austin Guzman and directed by Andy Muschietti, one of the co-creators of the series.

Welcome to Derry serves as a prequel to Muschietti's It movies, which notably adapted Stephen King's It novel. While many of Welcome to Derry 's characters will be unfamiliar to fans of the story, the show does feature figures connected to the existing franchise and wider Stephen King universe.

The development of a prequel series began in 2022, three years after the release of It: Chapter Two . After various delays, mainly due to the Hollywood labor strikes, It: Welcome to Derr y made its d

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