It: Welcome to Derry wrapped up season 1 last night, and now, executive producer and director Andy Muschietti is speaking out.
If you don’t watch, it was discovered in the finale episode that Pennywise seems to be able to time hop – specifically, the demonic clown knew that he would die in the future at the hands of the Loser’s club, and told Marge (Matilda Lawler) that she would have a son named Richie (Finn Wolfhard/Bill Hader), and he would be part of the group that would help It meet its demise.
Now, Andy is speaking out about this big idea that will be explored in future seasons, should HBO renew the series.
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He told Deadline, “[Pennywise’s] experience of time is non-linear. How is that and why, that’s a whole exploration that we intend to flesh out during the next two seasons. But that was pretty much [the idea] from the beginning. The pitch to Stephen King was we’re going to tell a story backwards, and it has to do with that hint.”
The question seasons 2 and 3 would answer are: “Is he going backwards in a linear way, or is he omnipresent, and how does that affect the story that we already know?”
Indeed, we learned that, should seasons 2 and 3 happen, they would go backwards in time to each of It’s feeding years – 1935 and 1908.
Variety asked if they had started writing season two, and producer Barbara Muschietti responded, “We can’t talk about it.”
Andy added, “We can only say the stuff that’s already known, like it’s in 1935, 27 years before Season 1 and it involves the massacre of the Bradley Gang from the books. It takes place during the Depression in Derry, and there are some new characters and some characters from this season as well, but younger versions of them.”
