Beginner on HBO and HBO Max in October 2025, a brand new trailer for Pennywise Prequel Series IT: Welcome to Derry Was unveiled at San Diego Comic Con 2025, and this is already one of the most scary things that I have looked at this year. The show will bring us back to the place where it all started in the 1960s, where the city of Derry was haunted by evil, and without their knowledge, a clown killer who happens to be responsible for all the missing children.
If you try to understand the complete calendar, the 2017 cinematographic version of HE takes place in 1988, with a monitoring film It: chapter two taking place 27 years later. Bill Skarsgård played Pennywise in the three projects, and he has aged incredibly well if the ephemeral prequel images are something to pass. We know how its story has ended, but its beginnings are still wrapped in mystery, and this mystery is probably absolutely hideous.
We are not going to see the Losers club this time, but that does not mean IT: Welcome to Derry will have other Stephen King film traditions. In fact, I noticed an epic crossroads in the new trailer, and if you have missed it, rest assured that the Easter egg is looking at you directly in the face.
IT: Welcome to Derry’s new trailer for the most overwhelming history of Stephen King of all time
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Not happy to just scare ourselves silly in recent decades, King has also appreciated also reducing us to tears. Shawshank redemption is one of the most famous examples of this, adapted as a film in 1994 to explore the link between two men trapped in Shawshank. Why is it relevant? Because 57 seconds in the IT: Welcome to Derry Trailer above, you will see a bunch of male prisoners aboard a bus by reading “Shawshank’s state prison” along its side of the navy.
It’s a moment of flashing, but it is also the genre that will make the horror cinema fans burst when they see it. We have no idea of the role (if applicable) that the prison could play in the new television program, but the way the trailer sets up the meaning of the bus, this could be more than a simple Easter egg. Two of our new hunters for Pennywise minors come across our bus prisoners in fear-tache-Awe, with the signature red sign of the floating killer clown along a bank nearby after.
This could easily mean that Pennywise is a former Shawshank detainee, except instead of making a 90s film who could reduce you to tears simply while thinking about it, he decided to harm innocent children instead. The fact that Pennywise’s background is essentially where playing could be the most intriguing part of IT: Welcome to DerryOnly because we simply have no impact on what could happen. What could be more frightening than the fear of the unknown?
Are we going to see even more Easter eggs Stephen King while the television show is starting to be broadcast? Who knows. But thanks to this sneaky scene, I will keep my eyes open like the armchair detective to which I was born to be.
