About to achieve the result of This: Welcome to Derryhe 1×07 It featured the origin of the clown Pennywise and the clash between the citizens of Derry in the Black Spot, with a denunciation of systematic racism against the black population, while rage takes over and the evil entity continues to feed, before returning to the shadows for 27 years.
A chapter that could have particularly moved the master of horror Stephen King, writer behind the novel Article in 1986 and creator of a mythology which allowed the series to connect with other works like The glow, Doctor Sleep, Castle Rock, Life sentence either The Dark Tower.
In an exclusive interview for CINEMANÍA, Barbara Muschietti, co-creator of the series and producer of the first two films, defined the master of horror as a “sun” and a person very involved in the series. “Something crosses his mind and he writes it to you immediately. Suddenly you get an email that says the first scare in Chapter 7 is amazing. It’s very nice. We have a very affectionate relationship with him,” confessed the Argentinian, giving us a clue about the opinion of the author of 1×07.
THE the first 10 minutes of this chapter are dedicated to Pennywiseto show us how he was dragged into the shadows by the evil entity It, leaving behind his daughter Ingrid. In the absence of additional details about the exact nature of the fear, the meeting between the clown and the boy who drags him into the darkness takes all the ballots, even if the reappearance of Pennywise in Black Spot It could also be “that first scare”.
One of Stephen King’s favorite series in 2025
What is clear is that This: Welcome to Derry It has become one of Stephen King’s favorite series of the year.who already pointed out that the scene with the jar of pickles it was etched on his retina and described the fiction as “terrifying” and “with many surreal images”. And this is not trivial for an author who, when something did not please him, even if it was his own adaptations, said it sincerely, as happened with The glow (1980), lawnmower (1992) or The Dark Tower (2017).
For his part, Andy Muschietti, director of the two parts from 2017 and 2019, and co-creator and co-director of this new prequel series, spoke of King’s support these weeks. “Especially because This series requires a lot of creative license and stands out much more from the book than the film.. It’s an exploration of all those dark places in the novel, an answer to many of the riddles that arise and the pieces of the puzzle that don’t add up. Furthermore, there is a sort of revelation of an underwater iceberg that fits into a much larger mythology and is linked to other works by Stephen King“, he concluded proudly.
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