{"id":40055,"date":"2025-09-03T03:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:57:08","slug":"it-welcome-to-derry-sets-october-premiere-date-on-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40055\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;IT: Welcome to Derry&#8217; Sets October Premiere Date on HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>IT: Welcome to Derry<\/strong>\u201d will premiere <strong>October 26<\/strong> on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as a prequel to <strong>Andy Muschietti<\/strong>\u2019s IT films and based on Mike Hanlon\u2019s historical interludes from the <strong>Stephen King<\/strong> novel, the nine-episode series is set in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Muschietti, who directs multiple episodes of the show, has teased that second and third seasons, if ordered by HBO, would take place in 1935 and 1908, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/strong> returns as Pennywise the Clown, starring alongside\u00a0<strong>Taylour Paige\u00a0<\/strong>(The Toxic Avenger), <strong>Jovan Adepo\u00a0<\/strong>(\u201cThe Stand\u201d), <strong>Chris Chalk\u00a0<\/strong>(\u201cGotham\u201d), <strong>James Remar<\/strong> (\u201cDexter\u201d), <strong>Madeleine Stowe<\/strong> (\u201cRevenge\u201d), and <strong>Stephen Rider<\/strong> (\u201cDaredevil\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alixandra Fuchs<\/strong>\u00a0(Boogeyman Pop), <strong>Kimberly Guerrero<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cReservation Dogs\u201d), <strong>Dorian Grey<\/strong>\u00a0(Star Trek: Discovery),\u00a0<strong>Thomas Mitchell<\/strong>\u00a0(Spiral: From the Book of Saw), <strong>BJ Harrison<\/strong> (\u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes\u201d), <strong>Peter Outerbridge<\/strong>\u00a0(Saw VI),\u00a0<strong>Shane Marriott<\/strong> (\u201cFargo\u201d),<strong>\u00a0Chad Rook<\/strong>\u00a0(Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), <strong>Joshua Odjick<\/strong>\u00a0(The Long Walk), <strong>Rudy Mancuso<\/strong>\u00a0(The Flash), and <strong>Morningstar Angeline\u00a0<\/strong>(\u201cEcho\u201d) round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Fuchs<\/strong> (Ice Age: Continental Drift), who wrote the teleplay for the first episode, and <strong>Brad Caleb Kane<\/strong> (\u201cCrystal Lake\u201d) serve as co-showrunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d will premiere October 26 on HBO Max. Serving as a prequel to Andy Muschietti\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,1355,30627,327,30628],"class_list":{"0":"post-40055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-it","13":"tag-it-welcome-to-derry","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-welcome-to-derry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}