Breaking Down the Insane Opening of 'It: Welcome to Derry'
The VFX supervisor and prosthetics department head of 'Welcome to Derry' discussed the series' gruesome cold opening with Variety, revealing the use of fantastic practical goo and blood to bring a killer baby to life.
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' quickly reminds audiences that they are back in Stephen King's cursed town, with enough blood, guts, and gore to rival 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, where 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 breaks down the insane opening of 'It: Welcome to Derry'.
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