Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
the brand new images from IT Welcome To Derry.
If you've been following the channel for a while then you'll know that the first video
that really blew us up was the Pennywise one where we pointed out everytime that he was
in the background of a scene in IT Chapter 1 and 2.
That was the highest viewed video on our channel until Squid Game came along and I've been
waiting for years now for us to return back to Derry so I could talk about what I think
is the best character in horror.
I've read the book 3 times, obsessed over all the intricacies in the movies and I was
so hyped to see that we were getting a show centred around Derry back when it really transformed
into a town.
These new images look great and throughout this video we're gonna be going through them
all to talk about what they tell us about the show.
I'm also gonna be going over what we know about the series as well and there's so much
to talk about.
Now though it's being listed as a full on origin story for Pennywise I don't know if
it will centre solely around just his backstory as we know the series is going to be set in
the late 50s/early 60s.
Pennywise actually crash landed on earth millions of years ago and he landed in what would go
onto become North America.
Here he....or rather she sat waiting in hibernation.
Yeah Pennywise or rather the creatures real face is a female and they've gone bloody woke.
Nah I always mess up the gender when talking about her so to keep things simple I'm gonna
just call Pennywise him if we're referring to the clone as the creature fits the body
of the form it takes.
Anyway you don't care.
What you do care about is the rough timeline of what happened to lead up to the events
of the show which I wanna talk about first.
Now IT lay dorment until people settled in the area and originally this land was inhabited
by native americans.
Using their ancient techniques they managed to subdue the creature by carrying out a process
known as the Ritual of Chud.
This is something that the losers club adopted in Chapter 2 and in the book they defeated
it using that whereas the films had them adopting cancel culture and basically becoming a live
action twitter mob.
Either way IT's greatest plan was that it allowed the town of Derry to be built up around
it.
This gave it a constant supply of food as visiters and settlers would constantly come
by the area and it could prey on them and their children.
In the book it says that IT is Derry and Derry is IT and in discovering the origins of the
town we're going to be discovering the origins of Pennywise.
Anyway in 1715 it started its cyle after awakening and taking some of the children from the town.
There's a moment in Chapter 1 when Ben sits in the library where we see him looking up
at a painting and there's a woman placing a baby down a well.
This was actually originally going to be a scene in the film in which we saw IT picking
off children from the town and offering the mothers the option to live or die in the kids
place.
Jump to 17-40 and we get it's first real cycle in which it terrorises the twon for three
years.
This was a bloodbath and during it three hundred settlers from Derry disappeared.
During the first film we visit Bens room and see that he's collected images from this and
can catch Pennywise standing amongst the settlers in a crudely drawn image.
Now it then disappeared for roughly 29 years before emmerging in 1769.
From this point onwards the creature continued its cycle and it was responsible for several
atrocities in the town.
This included the Kitchener Ironworks explosion which we see Ben looking at images of in the
Library during part 1.
It also adopted the monikor of Bob Gray which we got a nod to in It Chapter 2 when Beverly
visited Mrs Kersh.
Either way the cycle goes all the way up to 1957 which I'm guessing is when the show will
take place.
This was it's 8th emmergence and in the book it was one of the most brutal appearances
of the clown.
Now interestingly the timeline in the book was set during this period and this was then
carried across to the tv adaptation.
Both of those have the kids growing up in the 50s so that they could be adults come
1986 when the older sections were set.
However the movie changed things up so that they could be adults in modern day and thus
the films had the kids growing up during the 80s.
Both live action adaptations have done things differently to how they're laid out in the
source material with the 50s and 80s stuff being told side by side whereas it was laid
out much neater when they adapted it.
However I think that we can kinda use the basis of the book to guess at what could happen
in the 60s as they skipped over a lot of the murders to shorten things down to fit a film.
In total there's 17 deaths in just that part of the book which gives them lots of things
to pull upon.
One thing I dont think that the movies showed well is how lucky that the losers club actually
was to survive Pennywise and in the book they get out of most encounters by just the skin
of their teeth.
They have some chapters where we see things from the point of view of a kid nammed Eddie
Corcoran as he runs through the woods being chased by IT and just as he makes it to freedom
he's grabbed and pulled in.
Reading stuff like that really sticks with you and I think that the series could easily
have full episodes centred around just one child trying to evade the monster only to
get taken at the end.
Now that takes us onto the images and we have a number of missing childrens posters which
were spotted at the filming locations.
These includes danielle van helden and peter bodha.
Neither of them were in the list of Pennywises victims however we do see some that could
hint to what happens in the show.
We have a police car in the streets and later on can see the office of the Chief Of Police.
Though in the book he was called Andrew Radermacher there could be a reason why we get the different
names in the show.
Radermacher himself was killed in a seemingly strange and violent storm and in order to
fill the position the chief before him would've had to vactate it.
I'm guessing that the series might take a strong focus on the police due to the missing
posters and the cop car and sign.
In Derry they were constantly looking out for why so many kids had up and vanished and
chapter 2 centres solely around the death of adrian mellon which is told to us by a
police officer who'd been put on the case.
Adrians death was shown at the part of chapter 2 but they skipped over a lot of things that
made that section of the book so creepy.
Witnesses saw a clown at the scene of the crime but fearing that it wouldnt hold up
in court they decided to never testify about it.
Due to Pennywises powers hes also able to psychically put a form of mild hypnosis over
the town in which people arent as interested in the missing kids as they should be.
A video posted on tik tok by Mr Will Wong took a tour of the sets and in it he also
filmed the outside of the Derry police station so yeah they are giving a lot of focus to
that.
We know roughly what the series will be about but I thik we could at least explore this
in the series and it would be great to see things from the perspecitve of the police.
Now there's also a Fremlin Dairy Van and a one for Melvins Deluxe Sliced Dill Pickles.
Both of these really set the tone for the series and this continues when we see the
sets themselves.
Now this series is being filmed in Port Hope Ontario but they've done a great job of transforming
the town.
We've got things like a modern appliance store advertising colour tvs and also a sign that
says Zenith.
This could be a nod to Stephen Kings book The Plant Zenith Rising though it could also
be a reach.
On top of this there's the derry press, some campbells soup tins in a window and another
very interesting location.
We can see a chinese restaurant called the Jade Orient which has links in with both the
books and film.
In them the banquet scene happens at the Jade Orient and htough the location is different
we could be seeing the restaurants first store too.
We have the Derry Grill, The Derry Press, and also Second Hand Rose Antiques.
This could go onto become the antique store where Bill gets his bike back from and in
Chapter 2 this was where we got the stepehn king cameo at.
Lastly we have a really haunting image with a car driving past a drain which has one of
Pennywises signatures coming out of it.
Dangling from the drain is a red balloon which the character used to lure kids in with.
It's a really haunting image and we also got in the video a picture of a sign saying that
this would be the home of the future Paul Bunyon monument.
That was a big part of both the book and second film with it chasing Richie after Pennywise
took its form.
Now the plot synposis says:
"Welcome to Derry" will take a look at a group of friends who are forced to take on their
greatest fears when children begin to disappear at the hands of a murderous clown named Pennywise.
According to Deadline, the series will portray the events leading up to 2017's "It: Chapter
One."
So though I did weigh on the police I think it's gonna definitely carry the aesthetic
that made the films so popular and the book and mini series of course influenced shows
like stranger things and so on.
The seriesis being over seen by Andy Muschietti who will direct several episodes.
However Bill Skarsgard will not be returning as pennywise and yeah, kinda bummed out hearing
that.
However we know the cast will be made up of Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar and
Chris Chalk.
I think Remar would make a great policeman investigating stuff but let me know your thoughts
below.
The series is set to release in 2024 and so far it hasn't been held up by the writers
strike.
Guessing that they got the scripts to the point that they're happy to start filming
and I can't wait to see the series next year.
Anyway let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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