IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Renewed, Will Cover Bradley Gang Massacre

HBO and Warner Bros. Television announced Monday that It: Welcome to Derry has been renewed for a 2nd season. Brad Caleb Kane, who served arsenic co-showrunner connected Season 1 with Jason Fuchs, volition service arsenic showrunner for Season 2.

While It: Welcome to Derry Season 1 was acceptable during the Cold War, Season 2 is acceptable astir 30 years earlier.

According to the authoritative logline, Season 2 “takes spot successful 1935 during the Great Depression and centers connected the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a radical of slope robbers who halt successful Derry to bargain ammo and extremity up facing unimaginable horror.”

In Stephen King’s caller It, the Bradley Gang were Midwestern outlaws successful the vein of John Dillinger and Bonnie & Clyde. The gang’s 8 members included leaders Al Bradley and George Bradley, George’s woman Kitty Donahue, Joe and Cal Conklin, Arthur Malloy, Patrick Caudy and his woman Marie Hauser.

The Bradley Gang were mentioned successful It: Welcome to Derry Season 1. In the 2nd episode, the US Air Force exhumes the gang’s car – with immoderate of the gang’s corpses inactive wrong – during Operation Precept. The Bradley Gang shootout connected the streets of Derry is besides depicted successful the series’ animated opening credits sequence. The pack are besides depicted successful a partition mural successful the 2017 film, It.

Executive producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti said successful a statement: “Continuing to research and grow connected the astonishing satellite Stephen King created is an implicit privilege. The enactment of our partners astatine HBO and Warner Bros. Television is priceless. Boy bash we emotion our jobs!”

In summation to the Muschiettis, enforcement producers connected Season 2 see Brad Caleb Kane, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jamie Travis, and Dhana Gilbert.

Sarah Aubrey, Head of HBO Max Original Programming, said: “We are excited to instrumentality to the chilling satellite of Derry and to further grow connected Andy and Barbara Muschietti's horrifically iconic adaptation. Together with Brad Caleb Kane, they volition interruption caller crushed successful play two, deepening the terror, the mystery, and the unforgettable Pennywise lore that fans emotion to devour.”

For much coverage, cheque retired our picks for Pennywise’s astir terrifying moments, however Welcome to Derry connects to the wider Stephen King universe, and work each 8 of our It: Welcome to Derry Season 1 reviews.