'It: Welcome to Derry' Team Breaks Down the Insane Opening
The VFX supervisor and prosthetics department head of 'Welcome to Derry' discussed the series' gruesome cold opening with Variety.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the series premiere of “It: Welcome to Derry,” now streaming on HBO Max.
The first episode of 'It: Welcome to Derry' features a significant amount of blood, guts, and gore, rivaling the Andy Muschietti-directed “It” films.
The HBO series opens with an 11-year-old boy named Mattie (Miles Ekhardt) hitchhiking out of Maine town circa 1962. He is picked up by a family consisting of a father (Mark MacRae), pregnant mother (Zoë Barrett-Wood), teenaged daughter (Audrey Wellington), and boyish son (Lochlan Ray Miller).
A Lot of Fantastic Practical Goo and Blood
Author's summary: The team behind 'It: Welcome to Derry' breaks down the series' intense opening scene.
- Series: It: Welcome to Derry
- Streaming platform: HBO Max
- Based on: Stephen King's works