IT: WELCOME TO DERRY Creators Weigh In on Premiere’s Shocking Ending: ‘It’s Our Red Wedding’
Anyone who connects to a HE The prequel series would surely have expected disturbing scenes of horrific carnage (which the series delivered in its opening minutes), but we’re not sure that even die-hard fans of the films or Stephen King’s novel will have anticipated what happened at the end of the very first episode.
After searching for their missing (almost certainly doomed) friend Matty (Miles Ekhardt) for most of the series premiere, the investigation of Lilly (Clara Stack), Ronnie (Amanda Christine), Phil (Jack Molloy Legault), Teddy (Mikkal Karim-Fidler) and Susie (Matilda Legault) leads them to the Capitol movie theater…from which only two of them end up leaving.
During a screening of The music manthe demonic baby who attacked Matty at the beginning of the episode jumps off the screen and brutally dispatches everyone except Ronnie and Lilly. This group of children featured prominently in the show’s marketing, suggesting that the five friends would make up an earlier version of the Losers’ Club.
“We love it” co-creator Barbara Muschietti tells Weekly Entertainment. “It’s our red wedding.”
Brother Andy, who made the first, adds: “This is a strategically devastating event that gives the public the feeling that ‘nothing is safe in this world’. We’re somehow making the public believe that these are the new losers. Well, guess what? I guess they’re all dead.”
In Jason Fuchs’ original screenplay, all the children survived.
“It was the result of this experiment in a mini-room where we decided: ‘What if this happened?'” remembers the writer. “So the channel didn’t know that this was going to happen in the context of the pitch. We had a wall with portraits of child actors who would have played the children in [episode] 101. Andy stood up theatrically as I threw. I arrived just as everyone except Lilly and Ronnie was getting eaten. Andy took the newspaper away and there was a whole other group of kids. [headshots] below. I’ll never forget seeing their faces and thinking, “If we can replicate their reaction in the theater with the audience at home, we’ll have a really interesting, exciting and satisfying way to end Episode 1.”
We know that Bill Skarsgärd will return as Pennywise the Clown later in the season (probably not until the finale), but we’ll see the old entity take on several different forms – including this messed up baby – in the meantime.
“I think he’s even more voracious,” Fuchs spoke about this version of Pennywise in a separate interview with The wrap. “We wanted to explore the more human side of this character, particularly the Pennywise/Bob Gray duality. We wanted to know more about this creature and why she behaves the way she does, why she chose Derry as her eternal hunting ground, why she is so drawn to Pennywise, the dancing clown, as her favorite manifestation that she keeps returning to.”
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“As teenagers, we would take turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s It until the thick paperback fell apart. » ” the Muschiettis said in a statement when the project was initially announced. “It’s an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our computer films. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity and horror.”
“I’m thrilled that the story of Derry, Maine’s most haunted town, will continue, and I’m pleased that Andy Muschietti will oversee the spooky festivities, alongside a group of masterminds including his talented sister, Barbara,” »added author Stephen King. “Red balloons all around!” »
IT: Welcome to Derry also stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe and Rudy Mancuso, and is expected to premiere in October.
