It: Welcome to Derry, the latest addition to the franchise from Andy and Barbara Muschietti, is serving as a prequel to the Stephen King stories and the two It movies. Being a prequel, the HBO Max series has a lot of leeway to explore with the characters and their backstories.In a recent conversation with Straw Hat Goofy, showrunner Andy Muschietti revealed that he had originally planned to explore Sonia Kaspbrak's origin story but finally decided to cut it from the show.Keep reading to find out more.Andy Muschietti on Sonia Kasprak's backstory in It: Welcome to DerryMolly Atkinson as Sonia Kasprak (Image via Warner Bros.)Sonia Kasprak might just be one of the most hated characters in the It franchise, but Andy Muschietti was set to include an origin story for Eddie's mother, which would help the viewers somewhat understand her character in It: Welcome to Derry.Eddie's mother was a lying, manipulative, paranoid, and overbearing mother who convinced her child, Eddie, that he was suffering from various health issues, which severely limited his freedom. She used to give him placebo medicine to further her manipulative control. Her control would even go as far as trying to break Eddie's friendship with the other kids of the Loser Club. All in all, Eddie's mom, Sonia, played by Molly Atkinson in the 2017 movie, was not a well-liked character.Andy Muschietti revealed in his latest conversation with Straw Hat Goofy that this hate for Sonia Kasprak might have transformed into a little more sympathy if he'd gotten the chance to include her backstory in It: Welcome to Derry. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostHe revealed that Sonia, at the start, was an outsider who came to Derry, and in covering the Paul Bunyan story as a reporter, she discovers that little kids are going missing and switches to try and bring more attention to it:"At one point we had Eddie Kaspbrak's mom. She was an outsider...She came from Portland, she came from another city, and she's a reporter, and she's like covering for a small paper, she's covering the drama of Paul Bunyan being built, and people hate it, and they're protesting. As an outsider she comes and sees that there's something wrong..There's, like, disappearing kids and all these things, so she's very fast and switches and is like, 'I gotta cover this story.'"According to Muscietti, in the duration of covering the story, even though Sonia starts as a person who denounces everything that is happening in Derry, she herself turns into a person who falls into the fog of it all"But the funny thing about Sonia is that she starts as a real person who wants to actively denounce what's going on but slowly over the course of the episode she falls into the fog and becomes like a very complacent member of this community. And eventually she becomes the mother of Eddie"He added that the reason this was all cut was that it was just too much for the story, and the character overlapped with Charlotte Hanlon, who is an outsider and questioning the happenings of Derry as well. So, the origin story had to be cut from It: Welcome to Derry."Ofcourse, I'm talking about the character that is not in the series. We had to take her out because there was so much in the story.We couldn't put all the scoops of ice cream that we wanted"Nevertheless, it would have been interesting to witness this character arc on It: Welcome to Derry.Keep following Soap Central for more such interesting insights into your favorite shows!