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This post contains<\/em> major spoilers<\/em><\/strong> for Stephen King’s “It.”<\/em><\/p>\n Andy Muschietti’s “It” (and his 2019 follow-up, “It Chapter Two”) make a spirited attempt to flesh out Stephen King’s complex horror multiverse as portrayed in the eponymous novel. However, these entries barely scratch the surface in terms of the surreal origins of Pennywise the Clown, along with the multiversal implications that have connections to some of King’s novels. This urge to delve deeper necessitates Muschietti’s highly anticipated “It: Welcome to Derry,”<\/a> which will serve as a (potentially) multi-season prequel series unraveling the eerie reality of living in Derry, Maine. Per November 2025’s issue of SFX Magazine<\/a>, showrunners Andy and Barbara Muschietti intend to cement the basics of this world in the first season and use subsequent seasons to “look into all the bigger questions” about the titular monster, It.<\/p>\n While the films offer a rather streamlined explanation of Pennywise’s origins, it doesn’t explain its homeworld \u2014 known as the Macroverse \u2014 and how it’s connected to our own. “What I want the audience to feel is that everything they know about It is just the tip of the iceberg…,” Muschietti explains in the interview, while also stating that the show’s lore will tie into key multiversal figures from King’s other novels:<\/p>\n “It is not only revealing the lives and struggles of people in Derry in the past and their connections with the characters that we know, but also it will be a breach into and towards the other side, the Macroverse, the other dimension that Stephen King talks about in so many of his books […] That line that crosses across so much of his work, which is basically the world on the other side \u2013 the Macroverse, the turtle, Gan, the Crimson King, and the Dark Tower and the pillars around it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n