Pennywise is one step closer to returning, as Andy Muschietti confirms "we're now working" on IT: Welcome to Derry season 2

We're one step closer to welcoming Pennywise the Dancing Clown back to our lives, as Andy Muschietti confirms work is currently underway on IT: Welcome to Derry season 2.

Season 1 of the Stephen King spin-off was one of the most pleasant surprises of 2025, and it acted as a prequel to Muschietti's two IT film adaptations.

"It's 1935 – we're now working on it, and it's so much fun," Muschietti revealed at Deadline's Contenders TV panel for Welcome to Derry. "For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that – not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens."

We already knew the plan for Welcome to Derry was to focus on three pivotal events in the titular town's history, spanning three seasons. The first installment focused on the Black Spot fire, and season 2 will be about the Bradley Gang massacre, a shootout in Derry. Season 3 will be about the Kitchener Ironworks explosion, which killed 88 children on an Easter egg hunt.

"The Bradley Gang is based on the Brady Gang, which is a real-life gang of robbers that were executed in the streets of Bangor, Maine," Muschietti explained. "And now we're not creating the event that the big paroxysm of violence in this case will be the massacre of a Bradley gang."

As he went on to detail, the setting will be very different this time around, as the reality of the Great Depression means the familiar IT storytelling will have to change. "It's fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we're facing an era which is the Depression Era that changes dramatically the setup of things," he shared. "There's no suburban comfort – the trope of the kids that live in suburbia and they ride their bikes and suddenly one of them disappears is nothing like this. This is in 1935. It's a very dire situation. People are very poor. They're struggling to survive, so the setup will be very different."

There's no release date for IT: Welcome to Derry season 2 just yet. While you wait, check out our guide to all the most exciting upcoming TV shows.