Welcome to Derry' Surprise Halloween Special Drops on HBO Max
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- HBO has released a surprise 30-minute special episode titled “A Story of Derry” for the Halloween season, set hundreds of years before the events of “It: Welcome to Derry” and the introduction of Pennywise.
- The show, a prequel to the 2017 and 2019 “It” films and based on Stephen King’s novel, originally premiered on HBO Max in October 2025 and was renewed for a second season in August.
- Co-creator Andy Muschietti revealed that Season 2, set during the Great Depression in 1935, will explore darker social and cultural themes with a bleaker aesthetic, focusing on survival amid poverty and despair in Derry.
- Season 2’s storyline centers on the Bradley Gang Massacre, a bloody event involving bank robbers encountering horror in Derry, expanding on a chapter from King’s original novel.
- The new season aims to maintain a sense of hope amid bleak circumstances, highlighting the struggles of orphans, runaways, and impoverished residents in a town described as a “graveyard” of human spirit.
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