It: Welcome to Derry is the expansion of the universe of It that Andy Muschietti created for his film adaptations of Stephen King’s novel. For the pair of films released in 2017 and 2019, the filmmaker changed the time location of the novel to 1989 to present the adult version of his characters in the current era given that evil is unleashed in that small town every 27 years.
Now, as one of the three writers of this production, he returned to the original sixties location for the series that premieres this October 26 simultaneously on HBO, on pay television, and Max, on streaming. The story takes place in Derry, in 1962, where the family of Colonel Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo) arrives, who comes to take charge of a special project and then finds himself involved in a top-secret activity related to the unusual malignancy that occurs in this town.
Why watch It: Welcome to Derry
1) Andy Muschietti had absolute creative freedom as he was the showrunner of the series, as well as a producer. And since he himself had devised the recent successful adaptation, he had no problem providing visual continuity to the universe. Only instead of going forward in time, it went back.
2) The terrifying is the hallmark of this series. Each beginning of the chapter has powerful scenes with a well-executed staging to move the triggers of fear. The first episode is unmissable in that sense when everything gets crazy in the car.
3) It: Welcome to Derry It also has another element that makes it terrifying: it has some scenes graphic enough to make more than one decide to cover their eyes. And they work quite well in their narrative proposal which, it must be said, follows the traditional path of the coming of age films although with some surprises, such as that twist in the main characters.
4) The sequence of credits, which can be seen from the second episode onwards, is phenomenal in adapting the style of advertising and certain sixties graphic novels. He uses sarcasm to play with an apparent naivety and the brutality of what happens, especially with the use of “A Smile and a Ribbon” as a background theme.
5) You have to be patient. Bill Skarsgård, who played Pennywise in the films, is credited not only as an executive producer, but also as an actor. His appearance is surely set to happen with great fanfare. And if the supernatural scenes have rhythm in their execution to arouse fears, we expect something memorable.
6) Comparison will be inevitable con Stranger Things: a small town, inexplicable situations, teenagers marginalized from the rest of their classmates without the possibility of making themselves heard, bike adventures and the army doing things in the dark. And the supernatural.
7) There are current issues. One of them is racism, which in the sixties was even more marked since the marginalization of African Americans was much greater. That is a catalyst in history.
About the author:
*Javier Pérez He does reports, chronicles and interviews, as well as film criticism and coverage of cultural issues. Direct ForoFoco. Nobody wants to accompany him to the movies: he won’t stop eating popcorn or talking about something else.
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