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Showrunners Brad Caleb Kane and Jason Fuchs sit down to discuss the upcoming 'IT' prequel, 'Welcome to Derry.' They reveal which other Stephen King books, like 'Insomnia' and 'Firestarter,' influenced the series and how they've hidden Easter eggs for Constant Readers.
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00:00How deep are you looking into kind of the existence of Derry beyond beyond it?
00:06It's a very good question.
00:0711-22-63 didn't come up, but Insomnia did come up.
00:10And we did talk about weaving elements of Insomnia into into the fabric of the series.
00:16It you know, I don't want to say whether elements of it did or did not make this season.
00:20But we were we were really not looking to make a full Easter egg season.
00:25You know, we wanted to make a complete season with, you know, new characters that you come to care about.
00:30We obviously wanted to, you know, rip the rug out from under the viewer right away in episode one.
00:35So you would feel like nobody is safe.
00:37You know, you're uncertain who you should root for.
00:39But because we're doing long form storytelling, you can dig into character a lot more.
00:43We can make those fears a lot more personal and we can make it a lot more harrowing for the
00:47viewer.
00:48So we really wanted it to be a self-contained thing.
00:50That's not to say that Easter eggs don't abound and it isn't about the Hanlon family and it doesn't exist
00:55in context of the canon of the movies and the themes of the book.
00:58But it exists in and of itself this season.
01:01Yeah.
01:02There are Easter eggs abound.
01:03I think there's stuff in virtually every episode.
01:05I think my favorite one without saying what it is, and I think a lot of people will miss it.
01:10There is a fire starter related Easter egg deep in the season that blink and you miss it.
01:15But I think that's that's one of my favorite buried ones.
01:18Look, I am I am a diehard, you know, I am a constant reader of Uncle Stevie.
01:23We both are.
01:24And I'm I am a Dark Tower fan.
01:28And, you know, if if you hear a thank you sigh in there somewhere in the season, you will know
01:33who to blame.
01:34And you will.

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