Ono: Welcome to Derry returns to the sinister city of Derry to show just how creepy and cruel Pennywise can be. The evil clown, once again played by Stephen King and played by Bill Skarsgard, returns to the city sewers, retaining his strength and cruelty. Much more frightening: the demonstration of new abilities, even more violence and, it seems, a new lust for blood. All within the framework of powerful opponents to defeat and victims to hunt down.
But the HBO Max series is also a prequel, revealing an unknown plot of the saga. It shows the people of Derry long before the Losers gang began investigating the origins of Pennywise and forced them to confront the creature. So, Andy Muschietti’s production is an unprecedented story about one one of the scariest monsters in Stephen King’s long collection.
At the same time, he is adapting several passages from the book that, for reasons of length and coherence, were not included in the 1990 series or the film saga of the late 2010s. However, they will now receive adequate treatment by being included in the mythology of the central story. This includes a new chronology, extending the story to previous decades and even centuries ago. And all this in order to talk about the long and terrifying existence of Pennywise and even about his origin. Or at least more or less clear points that In his novel, King explores how they came first to television and then to film.
When does It: Welcome to Derry take place?
To delve into a similar point of view, the HBO Max series makes a bold decision. Using the 27 years that separate each monster appearance in the book. This 1986 as a starting point. So, the plot of the production goes back in time and is located in the mid-1960s. Specifically, between 1962 and the end of 1963. Something that allows us to go back and explore at every opportunity. in which Pennywise appeared again, just before what was told in the films.
But in addition, several chapters in the series directly examine events that also occurred in 1930–1935. That is, in the previous appearance of the monster before what the series tells as the central plot. The scenario solution allows Ono: Welcome to Derrythen show several events described or depicted in the books. Everything you need to understand the supernatural, violent and timeless nature of Pennywise.
It is even more interesting to detail his pernicious and corrupt influence on the people of Derry. As Andy Muschietti himself explained, part of the series will be devoted to the story of the evolution of Pennywise. At the same time, like every generation of inhabitants of the region, they one way or another had to deal with this creature. This twist has already been shown in It: Part II from 2019, in which Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa) tells Bill (James McAvoy) an ancient ritual to defeat the entity.
Pennywise through time
In fact, the entire film shows that Pennywise is more than just a ghost. Therefore, he is shown as a cosmic entity capable of changing shape and at the same time becoming increasingly dangerous. The theme reappears at several points in the plot, culminating in the showing the arachnid form of the creature and all the horror it can display in its final form.
In fact, some of the most interesting chapters of It: Welcome to Derry adapt passages from the book. In particular, when the Black Spot nightclub burned down. This will take the story into the book’s Mike Hanlon-centric interludes. What Barbara Muschietti said in an interview with the magazine Entertainment Weekly. During the conversation, the producer admitted that a significant part of the novel remained outside the film adaptation.
As such, the series will explore the extensive investigation carried out by writer Mike Hanlon, which covers the central point of the novel. The character, the only one left in Derry after the creature’s attack, devoted time and effort to documenting what happened to the monster between generations.. The story that Ono: Welcome to Derry adapts for the first time from a privileged point of view.
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