"Get ready to go back to where IT all began..." reads HBO's tagline, suggesting It: Welcome to Derry presents the morbid origin story of Pennywise. Set in the 1960s, the plot centres on a group of young people exploring the mystery of an evil force that has been terrorising the town of Derry for centuries.

HBO Max is floating its first official teaser trailer for Welcome to Derry. The upcoming series is a prequel to the hit IT films which adapted Stephen King ‘s horror masterpiece about a small town in Maine that’s cursed by the presence of a shapeshifting killer clown which returns to murder a slew of children every 27 years.

Andy Muschietti is finally reviving the IT franchise alongside HBO & WB - Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård makes his return as Pennywise to IT: Welcome to Derry, a prequel to the previous Stephen King ad

HBO Max unveils the first trailer for 'Welcome to Derry', a prequel series to Stephen King's 'It', set 27 years prior to the original.

The Home Box Office is about to get a lot creepier this fall. HBO has dropped the first teaser trailer for “It: Welcome to Derry,” the network’s highly-anticipated “It” prequel series. And it’s just as unsettling as everything else connected to this clown.

Viewers can also expect other interludes to be adapted within It: Welcome To Derry, and Andy and Barbara Muschetti previously told Entertainment Weekly that “we felt that there was still a lot of story to be covered” from King’s vast novel ...