'IT: Welcome To Derry' Co-Creator Says Stephen King ‘Was Mystified’ By The Show’s Three-Season Plan, But There’s A ‘Specific Reason’ For The Approach

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It feels like it was just yesterday that Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk was arriving in theaters – but that new Stephen King movie is now available on digital for home viewing, and we’re just days away from the next 2025 adaptation: IT: Welcome To Derry. The prequel series is set to debut its pilot this Sunday on HBO (with simultaneous launch for HBO Max subscribers), and it’s the launch of an expansive vision imagined by creators Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs that hopes to span three seasons. It’s not exactly the most obvious vision, however, and even Stephen King was apparently a touch perplexed when it was first presented to him.

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00:00I think he was very pleased about like our general intention. Of course, he always spoke

00:06out when there was something that didn't quite like match to his expectations. But in general,

00:12he was very, very pleased and excited about us completing, you know, completing the puzzle

00:20and creating stories that validate all the things that happen, but also building towards something

00:28that is more substantial at the end. I think he was mystified by the idea that we're also telling

00:35the story backwards. There's a very specific reason. We can't reveal it now because it

00:45explains itself over the course of the three seasons, but there's a very specific reason

00:51why we're telling the story backwards. It's hinted, by the way, it's hinted at the end of season one,

00:57so people pay attention. But in general, he was very, very supportive and very excited about what

01:04we were doing. Not from a point, from a place of trying to control his work, more like, you know,

01:13sort of, again, very curious about what we were doing within his sandbox.

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