HBO now confirms season 2 will go back 27 years prior to the events of season 1 to 1935. That places us in the Great Depression with a focus on the gruesome massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror.
Brothers George and Al Bradley were the head of the Bradley Gang, a band of criminals who robbed and pillaged various storefronts and banks across Derry in the ‘30s.
Kitty Donahue, George’s wife, is another character who often accompanied the brothers on their terror sprees. George and his acquaintances were finally gunned down in 1935 during a brutal shootout when several Derry residents ambushed them.
Andy Muschietti told EW in that same 2025 year-end interview with Barbara that they are “building a story that has the Bradley Gang episode as a climactic event.”
“Some guy saw the clown hanging outside a window. It’s weird physics and just a collage of information,” he said of how the events are described in King’s novel. “We are bringing much more life to the story. The story now makes a lot of sense. It’s a fleshed-out story with characters and arcs and everything.”
“And also,” Barbara added, “if you think of ‘35, what was the world of the United States? It’s just ripe for Pennywise to come back and create havoc.”
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