Explaining the ending of the premiere of IT: Welcome to Derry

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 1 of ET: Welcome to Derry.

The Losers’ Club may have finally figured out how to defeat Pennywise once and for all in 2019 Information technology semester 2but in Andy Muschietti’s new HBO series ET: Welcome to Derrypart director He – she The film adaptation takes us back in time to an era when the dancing clown – along with all the other iterations – was alive, well, and hungry for kids.

Following the huge success achieved in 2017 He – sheThe highest-grossing horror film of all time, and its second part, Welcome to Derry The film is based on the five intervening chapters of Stephen King’s famous 1986 novel, and is intended to play out over three seasons, set in 1962, 1935 and 1908 respectively. The project, developed by Muschietti alongside his sister Barbara Muschietti and co-producer Jason Fox, will explore the origins of Pennywise (with Bill Skarsgård reprising the role) by rewinding the clock in 27-year intervals to historical periods that coincide with the cycles in which he was awake and preying on the children of Derry, Maine. The series adheres to the timeline of Muschietti’s films rather than King’s book, meaning that the original Losers Club meeting takes place in 1989 instead of 1958, and the final battle in 2016 instead of 1985.

In a Spanish-language interview with TU Radio translated Bloody disgustingMuschietti explained why the interlude chapters — taken from the memoir of Mike Hanlon, the only member of the Losers’ Club to remain in Derry after they returned him to early slumber as children — are so important. “The interludes are basically chapters that reflect on Mike Hanlon’s research. They’re parts of his research. For 27 years, the guy was trying to figure out what he was, what he did, who did it, who saw it, and all that stuff.” “every time [Pennywise] “When it comes out of hibernation, there’s a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle.”

the Welcome to Derry The premiere, which aired Sunday on HBO, opened with an introductory sequence in which we witnessed the horrific disappearance of young Matty Clements (Miles Eckhart), a boy too old to suck a pacifier the way he used to, after he boards a ride from a possessed family after a night out at a Derry movie theater. From there, the show jumped forward four months to April 1962, when a group of Matty’s fellow outcasts — including Phil (Jacques Molloy Legault), Teddy (Mikal Karim Fiedler), and Lily (Clara Stack) — began to realize that Matty might have been the victim of something more sinister than a run-of-the-mill missing persons case.

After Lily heard Matty sing Music man “Ya Got Trouble” bursts through the drain in her bathtub and sees his bloody fingers sticking out through the pipes, setting off a chain of events that leads the trio – along with Phil’s little sister Susie (Matilda Legault) and Ronnie (Amanda Christine), the movie theater projectionist’s daughter – to the movie theater to investigate the truth about what happened the night Matty disappeared. But when Rooney set the stage version Music man While moving on the projector, Matty appeared on the screen holding what looked like a baby wrapped in a blanket. Moments later, all hell breaks loose when Matty, suddenly wearing one of Pennywise’s signature maniacal smiles, shoots the contents of the package across the screen and is revealed to be the winged demon baby we saw the woman in the car who picked Matty up to give birth to in the intro. Except that the creature had now grown much larger.