‘There’s something else …’ Finn Wolfhard teases his IT future
With the first season of the HBO spin-off show IT: Welcome to Derry now complete, Finn Wolfhard has hinted he could return to the IT universe.
Finn Wolfhard has teased he might return to IT.
The 23-year-old actor portrayed Richie Tozier in the 2017 horror flick and its 2019 sequel It: Chapter Two, and with his character’s legacy being echoed in the 2025 HBO spin-off show IT: Welcome to Derry, Wolfhard has hinted he could return to the franchise in the future.
Speaking about whether he was aware a picture of Richie would appear in Welcome to Derry, Wolfhard told Esquire Magazine: “I knew that years ago, actually. When they first started thinking about that show, it was probably 2021. [Creators] Barbara and Andy Muschietti both told me, ‘You’re involved.’ Yeah, I’m connected.
“I think there’s something else that will come up eventually that I’m excited for people to see.”
Reflecting on shooting to stardom at a young age, the Stranger Things actor admitted it had been a surreal and difficult experience growing up in the spotlight.
He said: “No one can prepare anyone for it. It was incredibly exciting … but there was a period in my teenage years where it was just hard.”
IT - which is based on author Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel of the same name - follows a group of bullied kids known as the Losers’ Club in the town of Derry as they band together after children begin disappearing without a trace.
As they confront their fears, the Losers’ Club discover the terror haunting them is a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear - and never truly goes away.
As well as Wolfhard, IT stars Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh, Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon, Jaeden Martell as Bill Denbrough, Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris and Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Following the two movies, IT was expanded with the prequel show IT: Welcome to Derry, which details the origins of Pennywise and Derry’s cursed history.
With the first season of the show over, creator Andy Muschietti - who also directed the two IT films - confirmed he and his wife Barbara Muschietti were planning to make another two seasons of Welcome to Derry.
Speaking with TVLine, The Flash director explained: “From the genesis of this project, we had the idea to make it three seasons, aligning with the three more important catastrophic events that are described in the interludes [of the book].
“Those are the burning of the Black Spot in ’62 - well, in the book, the dates are different, because we did a transport of the periods - but then the massacre of the Bradley Gang in '35, and the explosion at the Easter egg hunt in 1908.
“It was always that blueprint for us. We wanted to make a three-season event story.”
The final card at the end of the first season of Welcome to Derry confirmed it was “Chapter One” in the story, though Muschietti said including the title card was not always in the plan.
He said: “The idea of putting Chapter One on the final card came in post-production, even though we knew that three seasons was the big arc.
“I wanted to create kind of the same excitement from the end of our first movie. Most people went to the cinema not knowing that it was a two-part movie, but the story in the book required a second half.
“We have great memories of watching the end of Chapter One [with audiences], and putting ‘Chapter One’ at the end, and people went like, [screams]. It was great. So at the end of this one, I said, ‘Wait, let's do the same,’ and we did it.”
