News It: Welcome to Derry Potential Future Seasons of IT: Welcome to Derry Will Go Back in Time and Explore Pennywise’s Origins Twenty-seven years back each season, in fact (IYKYK). By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 16, 2025 Credit: Brooke Palmer/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Brooke Palmer/HBO The first season of HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry is set to premiere at the end of the month, but that hasn’t stopped the show’s creators—Barbara Muschietti, Andy Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs—from revealing that they have plans for where the series could go after the first season’s finale. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fuchs shared that the ultimate goal of the series is to get into the origins of why the supernatural malevolent force that sometimes takes the form of Pennywise is in Derry, and whether one can truly separate the town from IT’s evil. “Derry is the entity in many ways,” Fuchs said. “Obviously there’s a town that is separate, but to me, the stories are totally intertwined. If you think about the mythology in the book, IT actually predates Derry. IT has been there for millennia. Derry is a more recent innovation. So is there a Derry without IT? This season at least has some hints of an explanation, but we want to tell a complete story so that you leave the show with a different understanding of the creature, of the rules of the town, and what motivates IT.” We won’t get that full answer, however, in season one. “There’s a handover to a second season and a third season that will explore more of the other side because it’s really connected to the origin of IT and the reasons why IT is on this plane of existence,” Andy Muschietti told EW. “The idea, on the longer arc of the series, is to open the door to that bigger, wider mythology to see the iceberg under the water and everything that is not perceivable by humans.” Potential future seasons would go back in time in 27-year increments, centering on moments when IT wakes up to feed. The upcoming first season primarily takes place in 1962, which means that if they get a second season, it would take place in 1935. A third would be set in 1908, which would presumably be the end of the series since EW also reports that the idea HBO signed off on was a “prequel trilogy.” Seeing more of the “world that is behind the veil” also touches on how Welcome to Derry fits into the larger Stephen King universe. There is a reference to Shawshank prison, for example, in the first season, and Chris Chalk’s character, Dick Hallorann, turns up as an older man in The Shining. We’ll get to see how this slice of horror in King’s universe unfolds when the first season of IT: Welcome to Derry premieres on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, and will be available to stream on HBO Max. New episodes of the eight-episode season will debut weekly until the finale on Sunday, December 14, 2025. [end-mark] The post Potential Future Seasons of <i>IT: Welcome to Derry</i> Will Go Back in Time and Explore Pennywise’s Origins appeared first on Reactor.