"Set in the world of Stephen King’s IT universe, Welcome to Derry is based on King’s IT novel and expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT and IT Chapter Two," HBO Max's logline reads.
The streamer also said that Andy Muschietti will direct multiple episodes of the series, including its pilot. “As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s IT until the thick paperback fell to pieces," Andy and Barbara Muschietti said in a statement."IT is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our IT movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve's novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity and horror.
The series does not have a release date as of yet, though later in the year, we will be getting movie adaptations of two other Stephen King stories: Salem's Lot and The Boogeyman.