Pennywise the Clown Returns in New HBO Trailer for ‘It: Welcome to Derry’
May 20, 2025
The sinister clown from Stephen King’s It is back.
HBO has released the official teaser for “It: Welcome to Derry,” a drama series based on the hit horror films that will stream on the newly renamed HBO Max, and air on HBO, this fall.
The new series, from Warner Bros. Television, was developed for television by filmmakers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, who also worked on the two films, It and It Chapter Two, along with Jason Fuchs, who also worked on the sequel.
The cast includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso and Bill Skarsgård.
The new series means the franchise has come full circle. “It” began as a 1990 TV miniseries, based on King’s 1986 novel about seven children terrorized by an evil entity — manifested as Pennywise, a murderous clown portrayed in the miniseries by Tim Curry — that feeds off its victims’ fears.
Two feature films followed, It:Chapter One in 2017 and It: Chapter Two in 2019, and both were big box office successes, particularly the first film, which earned a worldwide theatrical gross of $704 million, the highest-grossing horror film of all time (unadjusted for inflation). The second film generated $473.1 million in global ticket sales.
“It: Welcome to Derry” is a prequel series, set in the 1960s, consisting of nine episodes that reportedly detail the origin of Pennywise.
