Derry’s long history of violence and bloodshed will be explored further in the second season of Welcome to Derry, with a particular focus on the Bradley Gang. The gang were referenced in It’s historical interludes, linked to a particularly terrible massacre in the 1930s, but Steven King never really expanded upon the incident in the book. All that’s about to change, as Welcome to Derry creator Andy Muschietti has told Deadline that season 2 will jump back in time to Pennywise’s Great Depression era exploits. “We’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said. “For the ones of you who read the books, probably the Bradley Gang sounds familiar. The Bradley Gang was a gang of bank robbers that — not accidentally, but they were on their way somewhere and they stopped in Derry to buy some ammo and something horrible happens.”cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});King based the Bradley Gang on the real-life Brady Gang, a short-lived group of Depression era criminals who were gunned down brutally and publicly by law enforcement in Bangor, Maine, close to the fictional town of Derry. One of the few reasons the Brady Gang are remembered is that their robberies quickly fed fears of lawlessness during the Great Depression. However, King’s spin on the gang has them ambushed and gunned down by Derry’s townsfolk, sparking a new Pennywise feeding cycle. Though the Bradley Gang will be central to the plot of Welcome to Derry season 2, it will also seek to explore a much bleaker time in Derry’s history that would naturally have been a veritable buffet for everyone’s favorite dancing clown because fear, chaos, and trauma were likely to be in abundance. “It’s fascinating because the thing that is so much fun in this stage of development is that we’re facing an era which is the Depression era that changes dramatically the setup of things,” Muschietti explained. “There’s no suburban comfort — the trope of the kids that live in suburbia and they ride their bikes and suddenly one of them disappears is nothing like this. This is in 1935. It’s a very dire situation. People are very poor. They’re struggling to survive, so the setup will be very different.”The post Welcome to Derry Season 2 Will Explore an It Tale Inspired by a True Story appeared first on Den of Geek.