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 the killer baby to life.
A lot of fantastic practical goo and bloodwas used to create the disturbing scene.
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 series. The first episode alone rivals the It films directed by Andy Muschietti in terms of blood, guts, and gore.
- The series opens with an 11-year-old boy named Mattie (Miles Ekhardt) hitchhiking out of Derry, Maine in 1962.
- He is picked up by a family, including a father (Mark MacRae), pregnant mother (Zoë Barrett-Wood), teenaged daughter (Audrey Wellington), and boyish son (Lochlan Ray Miller).
Author's summary: The 'It: Welcome to Derry' team discusses the series' gruesome opening scene.
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