Overview
- HBO Max announced the series will debut on October 26, 2025, confirming the date in official social media posts.
- The show serves as a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s IT films, drawing on Mike Hanlon’s historical interludes from Stephen King’s novel and setting the story in 1962.
- Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise, joined by Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Madeleine Stowe, and Stephen Rider.
- Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane are co-showrunners, with Fuchs writing the premiere teleplay and Muschietti directing multiple episodes.
- Muschietti has teased that potential future seasons, if ordered, could explore Derry in 1935 and 1908.