HBO Renews Welcome to Derry for Season 2

HBO’s “It: Welcome to Derry” has been renewed for a second season, which showrunner Brad Caleb Kane says is in development with a larger story and a new take on Pennywise. The season is planned for 1935, during the Great Depression, 27 years before the first season’s 1962 setting. Kane said the scripts were about halfway written and that a production schedule had been established. He also said director Andy Muschietti was casting. Kane will serve as the season’s sole showrunner, after sharing the role with Jason Fuchs in the first season. Kane described the new chapter as having the atmosphere of a gangster movie, with bank robbers, Hoovervilles and people riding the rails. The story is reported to center on the Bradley Gang, bank robbers who encounter horror in Derry. The gang’s massacre appeared in the first season’s opening credits, according to reports about the show’s plans. The season’s Pennywise will be portrayed in a way viewers have not seen before, Kane said. The character is played by Bill Skarsgård, who is expected to return. Kane’s comments offer a preview of the creative direction, rather than details of the completed episodes. HBO announced the renewal in August...