Following the just-released premiere episode, HBO Max has released a two-minute ‘In the Weeks Ahead’ trailer for its new series “IT: Welcome to Derry”.
The trailer comes as HBO has announced it will release the second episode early on the HBO Max streaming service in time for Halloween celebrations this Friday. The second episode will also air in its regular Sunday slot on HBO as per usual.
The show serves as a prequel to the hit two-film adaptation of the Stephen King novel “IT” with the story here set in the early 1960s in the period before Pennywise goes into hibernation and re-emerges in the 1980s in the first film.
Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso star, while Bill Skarsgård is reprising his role as Pennywise from the first two films.
Andy Muschietti, who directed the films, developed the series with producers Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. He’s directing four episodes of the run while Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane serve as showrunners. All four executive produce, along with Skarsgård, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin.
The eight-episode series airs weekly, through until December 14th.
