It: Welcome to Derry showrunners say including The Shining's Dick Hallorann in the Pennywise prequel was a no-brainer – and that Stephen King himself was more than happy to sign off.
"It was all about staying authentic to the book. We wanted to use as much of the canon as felt appropriate. We sort of put on our Mike Hanlon hat and approached this the way the character did. We became amateur Derry historians," Fuchs said at an NYCC roundtable attended by GamesRadar+. "And so, just as Mike is sitting in the attic of the library, we're sort of sitting in the writer's room going, 'OK, what pieces of these interludes in the book that suggest elements of Derry history shrouded in mystery can we start to dig into?'"
