'It: Welcome to Derry' Season 2 Set in 1935
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- Andy Muschietti confirmed to Variety that 'It: Welcome to Derry' Season 2 is currently in the writers' room, describing the team as 'very excited'.
- Season 2 is set in 1935, centering on the Bradley Gang Massacre interlude from Stephen King's 'It' — outlaws hiding in Derry while fleeing the FBI — placing it 27 years before Season 1's Cold War timeline.
- Muschietti said Depression-era hardship will be central to the story, not skipped: 'Everybody's trying to get by and survive the circumstances,' with characters pushed to 'crazy things' by economic desperation.
- Derry's aesthetic shifts sharply from Season 1 — Muschietti described the town as 'a graveyard almost' and 'a carcass of something,' populated by orphans and runaways rather than suburban kids.
- A family bloodline will connect the three planned time periods (1962, 1935, and 1908), serving as the through-line that links each season's story.
- Muschietti separately named King's short story 'The Jaunt' from the 'Skeleton Crew' collection as a future project he'd 'love to go back to,' recalling it 'completely shattered' him at age 14.
Why it matters: The move 27 years further back into King's timeline gives Muschietti and co-creators Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs room to expand a brief 1935 interlude into a full season, betting that the Depression-era setting and the Bradley Gang lore can sustain horror without the suburban-kids framework that defined the original films and Season 1.
