"Weighing in at over 1,000 pages, King's is a sprawling behemoth of a book, and the movie adaptations understandably left a lot of meat on the bone. It's both surprising and ultimately frustrating, then, that Welcome to Derry isn't so much a further adaptation of the novel as a half-baked attempt at a prequel, an elaborate but ultimately vapid work of King fanfiction dumped into an entertainment landscape that already boasts no shortage of such endeavors."
"The town of Derry, Maine, is beset by a terrifying evil that emerges from hibernation every 27 years, takes the shape of whatever its victim is most scared of (most famously a clown called Pennywise), and feasts primarily (though not exclusively) on children. In the book's 1950s storyline, a group of middle-school-aged kids are terrorized by the monster but ultimately band together to confront and defeat It."
HBO's It: Welcome to Derry is a spinoff of Andy Muschietti's two-part film series and an offshoot of Stephen King's 1986 novel. Muschietti co-developed and executive produced the new series. King's novel runs over 1,000 pages and contains intertwined narratives set decades apart about a shape-shifting evil in Derry that resurfaces every 27 years and preys on children. The film adaptations updated the timelines and were split into two movies, yielding mixed results. Welcome to Derry functions more as a prequel than a fuller adaptation and reads as an elaborate but ultimately vapid expansion of King's material.
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