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- IT: Welcome to Derry's creator is keen to explore the 1930s in season 2
- This would have a particular focus on The Bradley Gang, as seen in Stephen King's original novel
- However, HBO Max has not officially renewed the horror series
IT: Welcome to Derry was one of my favorite HBO Max shows of last year, and in my four-star review, I called it a "must watch". So you can imagine my excitement about upcoming plot details, even if we don't have official confirmation that season 2 is going ahead.
The IT prequel series was developed by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, who worked on the two movie adaptations starring Bill Skarsgård. Through the show, they were able to explore even more of Stephen King's massive novel, and it doesn't sound like they want to stop any time soon.
Speaking to Deadline, series creator Andy Muschietti has revealed that season 2 would explore a subplot Stephen King added in the original 1986 IT novel. We'll be going back in time again, this time to 1935, should the series be greenlit.
Article continues belowHe told the site, “It’s 1935 — we’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun. For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that — not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere, and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens.”
As Muschietti notes, fans of the novel will know this gang well, with brothers George and Al Bradley heading up the group of bandits who tried to rob Derry store owners, until something terrible happened to them.
Despite them being minor characters in the novel, Muschietti was interested in the real-life inspiration and hopes to give them more airtime in IT: Welcome to Derry.
He added: "The Bradley Gang is based on the Brady Gang, which is a real-life gang of robbers that were executed in the streets of Bangor, Maine."
“It’s fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we’re facing an era, which is the Depression Era, that changes dramatically the setup of things. 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.
Muschietti concluded: "This is in 1935. It’s a very dire situation. People are very poor. They’re struggling to survive, so the setup will be very different.”
Right now, we're still waiting for HBO Max to officially announce the renewal. But given the huge success of season 1, I wouldn't be surprised if one comes along very soon. Until then, you can binge-watch all of season 1 on the streaming service.
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