‘The book is full of enigmas and questions’: Welcome to Derry creators Barbara and Andy Muschietti on why the HBO horror series is more than just Pennywise | Daily Reports Online
Welcome to Derry has made a huge first impression already, and there’s plenty more to uncover across the eight-part HBO Max series.
In my Welcome to Derry review, I called the series “a welcome expansion of Stephen King’s huge novel,” and I also had the chance to talk to the creators about what’s coming up over the next few weeks.
I’m not alone in my excitement either, as Stephen King himself recently responded to the series, exclusively telling The Post. “I like Welcome to Derry a lot.
“There are plenty of horrors and lots of surreal visuals. There’s a supermarket scare that sticks in my mind, complete with pickle jars.”
The Muschietti siblings expanded on collaborating with King during their roundtable with us, saying, “We pitched him the idea for the show like 4 years ago. We talked to him about it, and he was like, ‘great, let’s do it.'”
“I think he was as curious about where this was going as us. And we told him that we had this strange desire to tell the story backwards. So we would go from 1962, being the first season, to 1935, and then to 1908.”
“There’s a very specific reason why we’re telling the story backwards. I can’t tell you yet, but there’s a reason why we’re going backwards, but he, without knowing why, he immediately said ‘that’s a good idea’.”
“From then on, I think that he was very open to exploration because even though the book is massive and it’s full of stories and characters, it’s all very fragmented and partially told.”
While more Welcome to Derry has not been greenlit yet, it does seem there’s scope for at least two more seasons. If it’s renewed, we’d get to see so much more, so I really am crossing my fingers for it to happen.
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