SPOILER ALERT: This article is full of spoilers from the “IT: Welcome to Derry” season finale.
“IT: Welcome to Derry” co-creator Andy Muschietti is putting a fan theory to rest that has had some social media users buzzing.
If you’ve been tuning into the HBO series, which is a prequel to the 2017 and 2019 “It” films, you know that the show has seamlessly weaved together elements from Stephen King’s multiverse with nods and connections to the horror icon’s “Dark Tower” and “The Shining” universes.
The show’s final episode titled “Winter Fire” that aired Sunday showed an eerie fog, onset by villain Pennywise, that enveloped the entire town of Derry, Maine, creating the perfect shroud for the ancient entity to capture Derry’s entire high school student body.
The fog’s presence led fans to speculate that the hazy scenery could be a possible connection to another one of King’s famous horror works: “The Mist.” King’s 1980 novella “The Mist” was famously adapted into a film of the same name in 2007 starring Thomas Jane, as well as the 2017 Spike TV series starring Morgan Spector.
King’s “The Mist” novella centers around a group of people trapped in a Maine supermarket as a mysterious, creature-filled fog engulfs their town.
But according to Muschietti, Derry has nothing to do with “The Mist” whatsoever.
“There is no connection to ‘The Mist,’” Muschietti told Entertainment Weekly in a story that was published Sunday. “I’m sorry to disappoint everyone with this.”
Explaining that fog has “its own logic,” Muschietti continued, “You see it in episode 4 at the end when Taniel [Joshua Odjick] is telling the story and we see how the asteroid hits the Earth. After the explosion, we see the Deadlights are basically surrounded by this smokey fog that trails back.”
The filmmaker added, “We decided to make that the language of It’s expansion.”
Muschietti went on to tell EW that he used the fog in “IT: Welcome to Derry” to “convey visually” just how expansive the entity can get.
“If it wasn’t for the indigenous community in the 1600s, It would have expanded across the world, but It’s caged,” he noted. “Now that the pillars are lifted and the cage is open, I wanted to convey visually that force of super nature is expanding out.”
Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane chimed in to further break down why there couldn’t be a connection between “The Mist” and “IT: Welcome to Derry.”
“Not to get too nerdy, but for that to be ‘The Mist,’ there would’ve had to have been a portal opened up into Todash Darkness, specifically,” he said, referencing the name of the deadly void between universes that’s bustling with monsters and acted as a passageway for the creatures to attack Earth in the novel.
Elsewhere in the interview, Kane explained that the fog in “IT: Welcome to Derry” is a direct call back to the final scene in King’s “It” novel, in which a flash flood occurs when the Loser’s Club duke it out with Pennywise for one final time.
“It really is a direct consequence of that fight that’s going on, and the psychic and spiritual power that the being has and its fear and its anger,” he explained. “That creates these very specific conditions in Derry. You can parallel that here because there is a great, emotional thing happening for the creature, realizing that the lane is open for it to get out into the wider world.”
Season 1 of “IT: Welcome to Derry” is streaming on HBO Max.
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