It: Welcome to Derry: Book vs. Series
HBO's It: Welcome to Derry (2025) draws on Stephen King's book It and serves as a prequel to Andy Muschietti's films. Developed by Andy and Barbara Muschietti with Jason Fuchs, the series begins in Derry in 1962.
About the book and the series
- Author
- Stephen King
- Year
- 1986
- Pages
- 1168Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 44 hr 55 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Steven Weber
A series of child murders brings seven outsiders together in Derry, Maine, where each encounters a creature that takes the shape of a private fear. Years later, a phone call summons the survivors back to the town they have largely forgotten. Moving between their childhood and adult lives, the book follows the friends as they recover the memories of what they faced and the promise they made.
- Creator
- Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs
- Writer
- Barbara Muschietti, Brad Caleb Kane, Jason Fuchs, Andy Muschietti
- Year
- 2025
- Episode
- 1 hr 4 minWatch on Amazon
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 8
- Network
- HBO, HBO Max
- Cast
- Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar
- Genre
- horror
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
In 1962, a child's disappearance draws a group of Derry schoolchildren toward something the town's adults refuse to acknowledge. Meanwhile, serviceman Leroy Hanlon becomes involved in a military operation whose interest in Derry goes beyond its air base. The two investigations unfold amid racial hostility and a recurring violence that has shaped the town for generations.
Other adaptations of this book
ItMovie · 2017Details
- Director
- Andy Muschietti
- Writer
- Gary Dauberman, Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 2 hr 15 min
- Cast
- Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard
Bill Denbrough refuses to stop looking for his little brother after the boy vanishes near a storm drain. During a summer in Derry, he and six other children discover that the frightening things they have seen are connected to the same predatory presence. With adults unwilling or unable to help, the friends follow its trail beneath their town.
ItIt: Chapter Two · Movie · 2019Details
- Director
- Andy Muschietti
- Writer
- Gary Dauberman
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 2 hr 49 min
- Cast
- James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgård
Mike Hanlon has stayed in Derry while his childhood friends build lives elsewhere, until a new killing convinces him that Pennywise has returned. He calls the former Losers' Club home to honor their old pact. Reuniting as adults means confronting memories they have suppressed and searching for a way to face the creature before it separates them again.
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