‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Creator Says Season 2 Will ‘Not’ Shy Away From the ‘Horrible’ Cultural Themes of the 1930s: It’s the ‘Heart of Our Story’ https://t.co/5O6n61xVC9
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Andy Muschietti talked about the upcoming season of ‘Welcome to Derry’ which takes place in 1935.
“There’s gonna be a lot of that depression-era hustling in the air in our characters. Everybody’s trying to get by and survive the circumstances. They are gonna do crazy things,” Muschietti says. “And of course, the social, cultural, horrible things that were happening in the era, too. We’re not going to skip those. [They are the] very center and the heart of our story.”
He talked about how the dynamic will be different than the previous season. “In this case, on the surface, Derry is a graveyard almost. It’s a carcass of something because people are depleted, poor, tired, jobless, homeless. The kids don’t have a suburban, comforting life. They’re in a very different situation. Some of them are orphans or runaways, and so the environment is pretty bleak. But there’s always the aspect of hope that is always there, burning, and it’s what keeps our new group going.”
He also discussed adapting other King stories; “I cannot talk too much about it because some of them are [active] projects. One that I did touch that’s not a current project, but I would love to go back to at some point is ‘The Juant,’ which is a short story that blew my mind when I read it. I was 14 or something,” Muschietti says of the short story in King’s “Skeleton Crew” collection. “It just completely shattered me.”
