It: Welcome to Derry (Max) – The It spin-off series is planned for three seasons

This is good news for fans of Pennywise, the evil clown from the films That and Stephen King's novel of the same name: the creators of the series Max It: Welcome to Derry have a three-season plan for this spin-off which looks back on the past of the small town of Derry.

At the heart of Derry's past

While the first season of It: Welcome to Derry will be broadcast on Max in 2025 one of its co-creators, Andy Muschietti (director of the films That released in 2017 and 2019 in cinemas) is already thinking about the future of the series.

He actually revealed at the microphone of Radio TU that he hopes that it will last three seasons retracing the different events linked to the appearances of the clown Pennywise in the small town of Derry.

The director explained that It: Welcome to Derry is inspired by the interludes of King's novel. These appear as extracts from Mike Hanlon's diary recounting his research into the history of Derry before the misfortunes of the Losers' Club, as he tries to understand the provenance of “It”.

“These passages mention catastrophic events in the past, such as the Black Spot fire, the massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of gangsters from the 1930s, and the Kitchener Steel Plant explosion,” detailed Muschietti. “Every time Pennywise wakes up, a catastrophe occurs and a new cycle begins.”

A series that plans to go back in time

Muschietti directed four of the nine episodes in season 1 of It: Welcome to Derry and added that the series was designed to have three seasons that will revisit each of these disasters.

"There's a reason the story is told in reverse," said Muschietti, who co-developed the series with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. “So the first season is in 1962, the second in 1935 and the third in 1908.”

If one could think that even if the films That were big successes at the box office ($708 million in revenue for It: Chapter 1 and 473 million for Chapter 2), it may be a little early to make plans on the comet concerning It: Welcome to Derrythe first season of the series has not yet been broadcast.

However, it appears that Warner Bros. intends to settle down in Derry for a while because Muschietti clarified that the studio “is very interested in making season 2 as soon as possible.”

Bill Skarsgardwho played It/Penny Flu in Muschietti's films, is back in It: Welcome to Derry and therefore promises to give us nightmares for a long time to come if the series achieves its ambitions.