By now, we all know that It: Welcome to Derry is getting another season, even if it’s not officially official. Even without the grand confirmation, we’re now at the point where Andy Muschietti’s opening up about what to expect, and turns out the season pull more directly from the book.
At Deadline’s Contenders TV panel, Muschietti revealed the show is jumping back to 1935 and focusing on the Bradley Gang. In the novel, they were bank robbers “on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo,” he explained. Then, predictably, “something horrible happens,” which audiences get vague references to via Derry’s season one intro.
The Bradleys were a subplot in the It novel and based on the Brady Gang, a group of real-life robbers back in the mid-30s. Like the characters who inspired them, the Brady Gang stopped for guns and ammo in Maine and were killed during an FBI ambush. As Muschietti put it, It is “always there [and] fucking around” in Derry, so the Bradleys’ deaths will make the “big paroxysm of violence” for Welcome to Derry season two, similar to the Black Spot burning and the movie theater massacre in season one.
With the 1930s setting, Muschietti said the writers’ challenge is sketching out It’s version of the Great Depression, which “dramatically changes the setup.” Unlike 1962, there’s “no suburban comfort. The trope of the kids that live in suburbia and they ride their bikes and suddenly one of them disappears is nothing like this. 1935 is a very dire situation, and [people are] struggling to survive.”
We’re sure to hear more about these challenges and how the team tackled them ahead of It: Welcome to Derry season two hitting HBO Max in the near future.
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