It: Welcome to Derry creator/director/executive producer Andy Muschietti continues to mine author Stephen King’s source novel for compelling nuggets he can expand and refine into prequel story arcs for HBO’s horrific hit limited series, having settled on the core of the first season.
Muschietti says Season 2 will explore the story of a subplot King planted in the original 1986 IT novel. “It’s 1935 – we’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said during Deadline’s Contenders TV panel for the series. “For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that — not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens.”
King himself took inspiration from a ’30s-era true-crime incident in his Maine homebase. “The Bradley
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