HBO Max is growing a brand new prequel to Stephen King’s iconic horror, It.
In line with Deadline (opens in new tab), the present, which is titled Welcome To Derry, is within the early levels, with a writers’ room simply opened.
It’s one in every of Stephen King’s most epic works and is ready within the fictional city of Derry in Maine, as are quite a few King’s different novels. The novel follows seven kids who discover themselves terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself whereas searching its prey.
Identified solely as “It”, the entity primarily seems within the type of the terrifying Pennywise the Dancing Clown to draw its most popular prey of younger kids.
The novel, which is a whopping 1,138 pages, has been tailored twice. First by ABC in 1990 for a two-part TV mini-series, the place Tim Curry provides a memorable efficiency as Pennywise, and second by Warner Brothers, who made two movies from the novel in 2017 and 2019.
The HBO Max sequence appears set to steer as much as the occasions of the primary novel and can little doubt shed some gentle on the origins of Pennywise.
Andy Muschietti, director of each Warner Brothers’ current films, It: Half One and It: Half Two, is to be an government producer on the mission, whereas Jason Fuchs, whose credit embrace Surprise Lady and Apple TV+’s new blockbuster Argylle, is to write down the sequence.
Is It ripe for a prequel?
Wanting on the numbers, completely. Warner Brothers revamped a billion {dollars} from the 2017 and 2019 films, and, with a lot of King’s novel to choose by means of for particulars, you may see why it is a straightforward alternative for HBO Max to take to sequence.
Something Stephen King is a house run, is not it?
Not essentially. The highs are very excessive, The Shining, Carrie, The Shawshank Redemption, The Inexperienced Mile, the checklist goes on and on, however King’s work have had some ups and downs just lately.
Physician Sleep, the long-awaited sequel to The Shining, didn’t catch hearth on the field workplace, whereas the lavish tackle The Darkish Tower obtained an absolute mauling. His current HBO adaptation, The Survivor, was cancelled after one season too.
It, nonetheless, was so successful and has such a robust model, it appears unlikely that Welcome To Derry would wrestle to seek out an viewers…
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