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Stephen King’s Best Villain Gets an Origin Story in Welcome to Derry Trailer (And It’s Terrifying)
It has been a long wait for the prequel to Andy Muschietti’s IT: Chapter One and IT: Chapter Two, but the wait is almost over for fans of one of Stephen King’s most terrifying stories. IT: Welcome to Derry is set to arrive on HBO and HBO Max October 26th and now, we’re getting our best look yet at the eagerly anticipated series — and at the origin for what may just be one of King’s best villains. — thanks to a new, full-length trailer.
On Tuesday, HBO released the first full trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry and it offers up plenty of looks at the town of Derry in the 1960s, but that’s not all. The trailer also gives viewers a look at Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise much earlier than he was last seen in the films, but more than that, we also get a brief glimpse of how Pennywise ended up in Derry in the first place: a meteor crashing into Earth, setting up for a terrifying, bloody story. You can check out the trailer below.
Welcome to Derry Teases More Than Pennywise’s Evil
For fans of King’s books, there’s a lot to love about the Welcome to Derry trailer and it’s glimpses of an early Pennywise. King’s original novel explained that Pennywise is actually a fear-consuming shapeshifter who fell to Earth a very long time ago but only awoke in the 18th century and began the cycle of terror on the town of Derry every 27 years. While it will be interesting to see how Welcome to Derry adapts this origin — especially with the two IT movies already making some timeline shifts — the trailer also hints at darker elements of Derry that have nothing to do with Pennywise.
The trailer shows the Hanlon family’s arrival in Derry and, as the Hanlon’s are Black, there’s a tone set that while Derry looks like a nice, wholesome place to raise a family, beneath the shiny surface of Americana, there are darker issues, including racism. The Hanlon family’s arrival, and the town’s racial tensions, couldn’t come at worse time as the trailer also reveals that a young boy has disappeared and it’s pretty clear that things will get more complicated and tense from there. It all seems to set Welcome to Derry up to be more than just an intriguing new chapter in the Pennywise story and one that much more richly explores the dark history of Derry — including that of its own residents.
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