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A brand-new trailer for It: Welcome to Derry has dropped, giving fans their first proper glimpse of this highly anticipated prequel to the IT movies. As reported by HBO, the show will release in October 2025. It's set to reveal the creation of the horror that plagues the town and the evil presence that surrounds Derry long before the tale of the Losers' Club starts.
Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise, giving fans a familiar face amid a new cast and story. The trailer brings suspenseful scenes set in Derry, Maine, focusing on mysterious events and missing children, which tie directly into the established IT universe.
What's in the trailer of It: Welcome to Derry?
The trailer introduces audiences to Derry during the early 1960s. Footage presented indicates that scenes include children talking about missing people, adults inquiring about a series of mysterious occurrences, a family that has just relocated to town, and posters of missing children.
Characters allude to a series of disappearances. There are bursts of panicked splashing in black water, disturbing glances into the sewers beneath Derry, and local authorities telling children to stay away from probing. The trailer suggests that the dark force in Derry is increasing in power, with voiceover such as,
"No adult's ever going to believe what we saw,"
and
"There's something bad here in Derry."
Audiences catch a glimpse of red balloons, a franchise trademark. The ominous, maniacal laughter of Pennywise at the end of the trailer, although the character does not appear in full on-screen. The tone centers on fear and uncertainty among children and adults facing an unseen menace.
Background of the series and its role in the IT Universe
It: Welcome to Derry is a prequel series, occurring years before the events of IT: Chapter One. Reports indicate that the show takes inspiration from Stephen King's original novel and builds on Mike Hanlon's accounts of the cursed history of Derry.
The action in this season delves into events from 1962, a period immediately before the events of the initial IT film, and if picked up, future seasons might go back even further in time, perhaps to 1935 and 1908.
The team of It: Welcome to Derry includes Andy Muschietti, director of both the feature films, as a director and producer of multiple episodes. Jason Fuchs, who is credited with writing the teleplay for the pilot episode, and Brad Caleb Kane are the co-showrunners.
Other cast members confirmed to appear include Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Madeleine Stowe, and Stephen Rider, with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise the Clown.
Themes and expectations
The trailer establishes the themes of fear, secrecy, and group denial. The dialogue in the trailer spotlights how the adults are unable to deal with or even realize the evil in their town, while the children are certain that something is terribly amiss.
The scenes hint at how the series will explore the way that Derry's unusual history affects both newcomers and natives. The trailer also employs visual motifs — like red balloons and black, soggy sewers — in order to associate this new prequel unambiguously with the movie vocabulary of the previous IT movies.
Release date and platform
It: Welcome to Derry will debut on HBO Max in October 2025. There are nine episodes planned for the first season of the sho,w and it is a part of HBO's long-term strategy to increase its slate of horror series. There is not yet a publicized day on which the show will premiere, but HBO said it will be comingout in the fall.
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