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Andy Muschietti Confirms 'Welcome to Derry' Season 2 in Development, Set in 1935

The HBO prequel is being developed around a Bradley Gang storyline from Stephen King’s novel even as the network has yet to formally renew the series.

Overview

  • Andy Muschietti, speaking at Deadline’s Contenders TV panel on Sunday, said the team is now actively working on Season 2 of It: Welcome to Derry.
  • The new season is set in 1935 and centers on the Bradley Gang, a bank‑robber subplot from King’s book that draws on Maine’s real Brady Gang.
  • Muschietti said the Great Depression backdrop will change the show’s structure, trading the familiar kids-on-bikes approach for a harsher world of poverty and adult danger.
  • He also outlined a longer roadmap by teasing a potential Season 3 built around the Kitchener Iron Works explosion described in the source material.
  • HBO has not issued an official renewal or release date, and reports note the creators’ 2027 timing is a prediction rather than a confirmed schedule.