“IT: Welcome to Derry” co-creator Andy Muschietti says “we’re in the writer’s room” now on that show’s second season.
The new season will take place in 1935, centering around the Bradley Gang Massacre which is mentioned in King’s original “IT” novel.
The incident sees a group of outlaws hides out in the town of Derry while fleeing the FBI, robbing and murdering store owners and causing all-around chaos. Events take place 27 years before the first season
Talking about the show’s tone, Muschietti says they won’t hold back from the Depression-era social and cultural elements:
“There’s gonna be a lot of that depression-era hustling in the air in our characters. Everybody’s trying to get by and survive the circumstances. They are gonna do crazy things. And of course, the social, cultural, horrible things that were happening in the era, too. We’re not going to skip those. [They are the] very center and the heart of our story.”
The overall aesthetic will be different – the kids here aren’t living happy suburban lives by any means:
“In this case, on the surface, Derry is a graveyard almost. It’s a carcass of something because people are depleted, poor, tired, jobless, homeless. The kids don’t have a suburban, comforting life. They’re in a very different situation. Some of them are orphans or runaways, and so the environment is pretty bleak. But there’s always the aspect of hope that is always there, burning, and it’s what keeps our new group going.”
As Muschietti has previously explained, the hope with the series is for three seasons, the third and final one tackling the Ironworks explosion in 1908.
Muschietti also has his eyes set on adapting King’s short story “The Jaunt” in his “Skeleton Crew” collection. That short involves a teleportation technology allowing instantaneous travel – but people have to be unconscious to do so. Anyone who goes through conscious goes completely insane.
Source: Variety
