HBO Boss Says IT: WELCOME TO DERRY Season 2 Is Very Much Alive and He Would Be "Happy to Do It"
If you’ve been side-eyeing HBO waiting for word on a second season of It: Welcome to Derry, you can unclench a bit. The Stephen King-inspired horror series might not be officially renewed yet, but according to HBO leadership, it’s far from stuck in development purgatory.
It’s been about two months since the season finale dropped and pulled in an impressive 6.5 million viewers, locking the show in as one of HBO Max’s biggest hits. Still, silence on a renewal has made fans uneasy.
That concern was directly addressed by Casey Bloys, who made it clear that the future of the show is looking pretty damn healthy.
Speaking with Deadline, Bloys shut down the speculation quickly, saying, "Let me say, [it's] not in limbo at all. Hardly. It was a huge success for us," before explaining why things haven’t been formally locked in yet.
"Andy and Barbara [Muschietti] are hard at work trying to come up with an idea for a story they'd want to tell for another season. I would happily do it. One of the challenges is, there's not a book that you're basing it on, so it's invention.
“They want to make sure that they have a story they're excited to tell. So it's not limbo other than they need to land on something they're excited by creatively. We'll be there."
That’s about as reassuring as it gets without a press release screaming “renewed.”
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti are the duo who’ve been steering the Derry ship since the big-screen adaptations of It and It: Chapter Two. Andy also directed multiple episodes of the first season, helping establish the show’s eerie tone and tragic historical lens.
Muschietti has previously hinted at where Season 2 could go if things move forward. Rather than repeating beats, the plan is to dig into another dark chapter from Derry’s past. Specifically, the Bradley Gang Massacre in the 1930s, a brutal event briefly mentioned in the interludes of Stephen King’s novel.
Season 1 did something similar by expanding and recontextualizing the Black Spot tragedy, so the groundwork is already there.
As Muschietti explained in an earlier interview with Variety, "It takes place during the Depression in Derry, and there are some new characters and some characters from this season as well, but younger versions of them," which opens the door to seeing familiar faces at very different points in their lives.
That could include younger versions of Rose and Ingrid, previously played by Kimberly Guerrero and Madeleine Stowe, giving longtime Derry residents even more unsettling history.
So while HBO hasn’t sent out an official Season 2 announcement just yet, all signs point toward patience paying off. The network’s happy, the creators are cooking, and the town of Derry clearly isn’t done bleeding yet.
For now, It: Welcome to Derry Season 1 is streaming on HBO, and it looks like Pennywise’s playground is still very much open for business.