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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Bosses on the Shocking Finale, the Future of Pennywise and That Post-Credits Scene That Ties It All Together

December 15, 2025

Dec 14, 2025 7:00pm PT ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Bosses on the Shocking Finale, the Future of Pennywise and That Post-Credits Scene That Ties It All Together By Andrew McGowan Plus Icon Andrew McGowan Latest Rian Johnson Says He Has ‘Conceptual Ideas’ For Fourth ‘Knives Out’ Movie: ‘It’d Be Interesting If it Were This Kind of Thing’ 2 hours ago Lady Gaga Pauses Sydney Show After Mayhem Ball Dancer Falls Off Stage 8 hours ago ‘It: Welcome to Derry,’ ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘3 Body Problem’: Jovan Adepo’s Globetrotting Year of Scares, Science and Sea-Faring Epics 10 hours ago See All Courtesy of Brooke Palmer/HBO SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “It: Welcome to Derry,” now streaming on HBO Max. The first season of “It: Welcome to Derry” concluded in a way that was truly thrilling and chilling, with the show’s full ensemble taking on Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) as he covered the titular town in an icy, supernatural fog. While series creators Barbara and Andy Muschietti insist that the climax’s liminal environment was not an intentional nod to Stephen King’s “The Mist,” they acknowledge the overlap in the universe, which is full of references to other King works such as “The Shining” and “The Shawshank Redemption.” Related Stories Lady Gaga Pauses Sydney Show After Mayhem Ball Dancer Falls Off Stage 'Hitchcock & Herrmann': Author Steven C.

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Smith on His Book About the Greatest Director/Composer Collaboration in Hollywood History, and Why the Two Legends Finally Fell Out In the spirit of the author’s expansive source material, the brother-sister director-producer duo also note that Pennywise’s story is not over.
Even though “Welcome to Derry” is a prequel to their 2017 and 2019 films, it’s already been established that the evil spirit possessing Pennywise arrived in Derry several generations ago, and the finale alludes to the antagonistic clown’s atemporal reality.
Though they couldn’t give much away, the Muschiettis confirmed that they intend for a Season 2 to take place in 1935, chronicling the previous cycle of Pennywise’s awakening in the town.
(HBO has not yet officially renewed “Welcome to Derry.”) Popular on Variety The overlapping timelines were made evident in the finale’s post-credit scene, which flash-forwards to 1988, showing Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis) briefly before the events of the first “It” film, previewing the tragedy that would set her own battle with Pennywise in motion.
The scene features an elderly version of Madeleine Stowe’s character, Ingrid Kersh, revealing her to actually be the same old woman that It manifests as in “It: Chapter 2” to haunt the grown-up Marsh (Jessica Chastain).

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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Bosses on the Shocking Finale, the Future of Pennywise and That Post-Credits Scene That Ties It All Together

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