Following its finale last night on HBO, the first season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” is available on Digital now and will be released on Steelbook 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 5, 2026 via Warner Bros.
Serving as a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s IT films based on Stephen King‘s classic novel, the series goes back to 1962 to trace the origins of the murderous, shape-shifting entity known as Pennywise the Clown.
Special features:
- Inside Derry – 3 extended behind-the-episode featurettes
- Fear the Other – Featurette exploring the societal dynamics of 1962 Derry, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, and the government trespassing on indigenous lands that wreak terror in this tiny New England town
The limited edition Steelbook also includes six Derry postcards.
Muschietti directed four episodes and developed the show with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. Fuchs serves as co-showrunner alongside Brad Caleb Kane (“Crystal Lake”).
Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise, starring with Jovan Adepo (“The Stand”), Taylour Paige (The Toxic Avenger), Chris Chalk (“Gotham”), James Remar (“Dexter”), Stephen Rider (“Daredevil”), Madeleine Stowe (12 Monkeys), and Rudy Mancuso (The Flash) star.
Alixandra Fuchs (Boogeyman Pop), Kimberly Guerrero (“Reservation Dogs”), Dorian Grey (Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Spiral: From the Book of Saw), BJ Harrison (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Peter Outerbridge (Saw VI), Shane Marriott (“Fargo”), Chad Rook (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Joshua Odjick (The Long Walk), and Morningstar Angeline (“Echo”) round out the cast.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “The cast is as tremendous as the production design, and the ’60s setting inspires new angles to exposing the rot beneath Derry’s Norman Rockwell-like facade. But there’s an almost empty artifice to it all, just fresh window dressing on a familiar story we’ve already seen and know how it ends, especially as the horror takes its time to escalate.”
