Andy Muschietti Confirms ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 Will Travel Back to 1935

While HBO Max has yet to officially greenlight a second season of It: Welcome to Derry, director, producer, and showrunner Andy Muschietti is continuing to pull back the curtain on what’s planned next.

Speaking with Variety, the filmmaker confirmed that Season 2 will jump back to 1935, adapting one of the most chilling interludes from Stephen King’s It: the Bradley Gang Massacre.

As described in King’s novel, the storyline follows a gang of outlaws who descend on Derry while fleeing the FBI, unleashing a wave of robberies and murders before becoming another bloody chapter in the town’s cursed history.

Muschietti says the Depression-era setting will dramatically change the series’ tone.

“Derry is a graveyard almost. It’s a carcass of something because people are depleted, poor, tired, jobless, homeless,” Muschietti told Variety. “The kids don’t have a suburban, comforting life.”

He added that the season will embrace both the harsh realities of the Great Depression and the social issues of the era, explaining, “Everybody’s trying to get by and survive the circumstances. They are gonna do crazy things. And of course, the social, cultural, horrible things that were happening in the era, too. We’re not going to skip those.”

Muschietti has previously outlined a three-season plan for Welcome to Derry, with each season traveling back another 27 years through the town’s dark history. While Season 2 has not yet been officially ordered, the filmmaker’s latest comments make it clear the creative team is already deep into developing the next chapter.