'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, revealing the use of
a lot of fantastic practical goo and bloodto bring the killer baby to life.
The series premiere of 'It: Welcome to Derry', now streaming on HBO Max, features a bloody and gory opening that sets the tone for the rest of the show. The first episode is set in 1962 and follows an 11-year-old boy named Mattie (Miles Ekhardt) as he tries to escape the cursed town of Derry, Maine.
- The show opens with Mattie hitchhiking out of town, where he is picked up by a family.
- The family consists of a father (Mark MacRae), a pregnant mother (Zoë Barrett-Wood), a teenage daughter (Audrey Wellington), and a young son (Lochlan Ray Miller).
Author's summary: The 'It: Welcome to Derry' team discusses the series' gruesome opening.