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Total Film
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Megan Garside

It: Welcome to Derry may feature a main character from The Shining, but Stephen King's original novel already explained the crossover

Danny Lloyd in The Shining.

Not only does HBO's upcoming prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry bring back Bill Skarsgård's dancing clown Pennywise, but the show also features a character from Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining.

In Welcome to Derry's most recent trailer, we see more of a man named Richard 'Dick' Hallorann. If that name sounds familiar to you, that's because Hallorann is the head chef at the Overlook Hotel in King's The Shining. Later in the story, Hallorann is revealed to have the same telepathic abilities that Danny does and is able to detect that Danny's father, Jack Torrance, has been taken over by the evil spirits of the hotel.

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