Back in March, we heard that a series called Welcome to Derry, which will serve as a prequel to Warner Bros’ two-part adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It (pick up a copy HERE), was set up at the HBO Max streaming service. Now writer Shelley Meals has confirmed her involvement with the show by sharing a picture of red balloons floating outside the Welcome to Derry writers room.
Meals already has writing credits on over a dozen TV shows, going back to episodes of the short-lived Dangerous Minds series that aired from 1996 – ’97. Other shows that have had Meals scripts include Shadow and Bone, Sweet Magnolias, Chicago Med, Witches of East End, Hawthorne, The Young and the Restless, and Dawson’s Creek.
The Ankler speculated that Welcome to Derry will
likely explore the origin story of Pennywise the Clown as well as the dawn of the 27-year curse that haunts the small Maine town.
Welcome to Derry is being produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling director/producer duo that was behind the two It movies.
With a page count that goes well past 1000, King’s novel It tells the following story:
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
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