Andy Muschietti is busy working on IT: Welcome To Derry season 2 and promises a very different season. HBO still hasn’t officially renewed IT: Welcome To Derry for season 2, but that hasn’t stopped creator/director/executive producer Andy Muschietti from starting work on it as we reported earlier this year. Muschietti has now given a little ... Andy Muschietti gives an update on IT: Welcome To Derry season 2
Andy Muschietti is busy working on IT: Welcome To Derry season 2 and promises a very different season.
HBO still hasn’t officially renewed IT: Welcome To Derry for season 2, but that hasn’t stopped creator/director/executive producer Andy Muschietti from starting work on it as we reported earlier this year.
Muschietti has now given a little update on what audiences can expect from season 2 if or when it gets announced. Talking to Deadline during their Contenders TV panel, Muschietti said they were having “so much fun” working on the second series.
“For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that — not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens,” Muschietti told during the panel.
Muschietti also explained where the Bradley gang came from for IT author Stephen King.
“The Bradley Gang is based on the Brady Gang, which is a real-life gang of robbers that were executed in the streets of Bangor, Maine,” Muschietti said. “And now we’re not creating the event that the big paroxysm of violence in this case will be the massacre of a Bradley gang.”
Muschietti also promised IT: Welcome To Derry season 2, which will be set in 1935, will be vastly different to the setting and thrills of season 1.
“It’s fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we’re facing an era which is the Depression Era that changes dramatically the setup of things. There’s no suburban comfort — the trope of the kids that live in suburbia and they ride their bikes and suddenly one of them disappears is nothing like this. This is in 1935. It’s a very dire situation. People are very poor. They’re struggling to survive, so the setup will be very different,” Muschietti described.
Muschietti also promised that season 3 would be the explosion of the Kitchener Iron Works, in which a hundred kids lost their lives during an Easter egg hunt.
IT: Welcome To Derry, which debuted in October 2025, received positive reviews from critics and the first episode joined House Of The Dragon and The Last Of Us as HBO’s most watched series debuts. The finale was the most watched episode with 6.5 million US viewers and the series averaged around 20 million viewers globally for each episode.
With such strong numbers, it does seem likely that HBO would move forward with another season, but we’ll let you know when there’s news on that.
