HBO's It: Welcome To Derry Is Returning For Season 2

HBO has greenlit the second season of It: Welcome to Derry. Andy and Barbara Muschietti have been developing the new season for some time now. The series premiered on HBO Max on October 26, 2025. Based on Stephen King’s It, the show serves as a prequel to the two-part It film reboot released in 2017 and 2019.

As per the logline, the story “centers on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror.”

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According to Muschietti, Welcome to Derry is building on events mentioned briefly in Stephen King’s It. “They talk about catastrophic events from the past, like the fire in the Black Spot… the massacre of the Bradley Gang, a gang of bank robbers in the ’30s… and the explosion of the Kitchener Ironworks,” Muschietti shared with Radio TU in 2025. “Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, there is a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle.”

Season 1 dwelled on the fire at the Black Spot, and Season 2 will circle the Bradley Massacre. Muschietti also has plans for a third season set in 1908, although there’s no word yet on whether Season 3 will be greenlit: “It’s a high bar [of quality to produce], and it’s also not a cheap show,” Muschietti recently told TV Line. If everything goes accoding to plan, Welcome to Derry will eventually get that third and final season as well.

Casting has not yet been announced for Season 2, but the cast for Season 1 comprised Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe and Rudy Mancuso, with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise.

The series is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Television.