‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Cast and Creatives Shocked HBO Didn’t Ask for Cuts on ‘Appropriately Disgusting’ Horror Series: ‘We Really Wanted to Push the Boundaries’

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HBO’ s new horror series, “ It: Welcome to Derry ,” is not for the squeamish. The eight-episode origin story of Pennywise ( Bill Skarsgård ) takes place in 1962 and serves as a prequel to “It” (2018) and its sequel “It: Chapter Two” (2019). Director Andy Muschietti , who developed the project with his sister Barbara Muschietti and writer and co-showrunner Jason Fuchs, says he didn’t hold back when it came to loading each episode with as much gore, guts and blood as possible. “I think the

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