'IT: Welcome to Derry' Showrunners Explain That "Really Eerie" 'Music Man' Cold Open

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00:00Jason, I know that you wrote episode one, so I have to ask about the cold open.

00:03Sure.

00:04It's so messed up. Why is the Music Man kind of the...

00:07I said, what is the one question we haven't asked yet that we...

00:09And we were thinking, oh, no one's asked about Music Man.

00:11So I started out as an actor on Broadway, like my co-showrunner Brad.

00:15I love musical theater. When we started talking about the opening,

00:18we actually initially entertained the idea of writing an original musical number,

00:21which quickly seemed like that was going to be a heavy lift.

00:25And we also... I think the other thing we realized was we wanted this to feel grounded in the period.

00:29And we also realized that opening... the song...

00:31Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble.

00:33...was a perfect opening to hear that over black before camera goes up on our opening scene.

00:38A really eerie repurposing of an otherwise happy musical theater number.

00:42Oh, we got trouble. Right here in our city.

00:45Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble.

00:51Maddie, is that you?

00:52We wanted to, you know, find that inciting it kill, that inciting it abduction.

00:58Obviously, the book, the movie begins with Georgie being taken.

01:01And so it felt appropriate to have Maddie Clements have our first It abduction.

01:06But we wanted to do it in a fresh way. We wanted to do it without Pennywise.

01:09We wanted to see another manifestation of It.

01:11And specifically a manifestation that took advantage of the fears of the time period.

01:15It's 1962. We're in the heart of the Cold War.

01:18Fears over nuclear radiation and fallout and mutation.

01:21And all those things combined into us coming up with the sequence that you see at the beginning of 101.

01:26Which really is the inciting incident of the entire season, right?

01:28Maddie Clements' abduction is what sets the rest of the story in motion.

01:31Wow.

01:32Okay, great.

01:33GoodWell .

01:34So, thank you.

01:36Good well...

01:41There, both.