Where Is Derry? Inside the Real Filming Locations of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’
The evil entity known as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) is once again gracing our screens in all his frightening, clown-like glory with the HBO Original title, IT: Welcome to Derry. This supernatural horror series serves as a prequel to the 2017 film It and continues to expand upon the chilling world first created in Stephen King‘s 1986 novel of the same name.
Set in 1962, the show follows married couple Major Leroy (Jovan Adepo) and Charlotte Hanlon (Taylour Paige) as they move to Derry, Maine, with their son, Will (Blake Cameron James), after Leroy is stationed on an assignment there with the US Army. Their move to Derry comes just a few months after local boy Matty Clements’s (Miles Ekhardt) mysterious disappearance, which might be connected to the awakening of Pennywise.
There’s a lot going on, as the Hanlons face advertisity while trying to survive in their strange new town, all while local kids Teddy (Mikkal Karim Fidler), Phil (Jack Molloy Legault), Lilly (Clara Stack), Ronnie (Amanda Christine), and Susie (Matilda Legault) attempt to find Matty, believing that he’s still out there somewhere sending strange cries for help. And somewhere amongst it all, Pennywise returns to begin a fresh reign of terror, sowing discord and chaos across Derry.
While there are only a few episodes out now at the time of writing this, meaning that a lot about the show is still unknown, you can at least expect that there will be plenty of engrossing storylines, gory moments, and Pennywise-induced scares to come. But while specific plot points remain a mystery, something we know for sure is IT: Welcome to Derry was shot.
Here’s everything you need to know about the filming locations for IT: Welcome to Derry.
Where was IT: Welcome to Derry filmed?
While the setting of IT: Welcome to Derry is Derry, Maine, the specific town itself was one invented by Stephen King when he wrote It. King drew inspiration for Derry from his own hometown of Bangor, Maine, but HBO’s new show was never filmed there, nor in New England, nor even in the United States.
Instead, IT: Welcome to Derry was filmed in multiple locations across Canada, around various places in the province of Ontario. In May 2023, principal photography began in Toronto, Port Hope, and Hamilton. The show uses some of the same filming locations as the 2017 and 2019 It movies, once again using spots in Port Hope to depict many external locations in the town of Derry, specifically Walton Street, where you can see the outside of Derry’s various businesses and homes.
In Hamilton, Ontario, Delta Secondary School was transformed to become Derry High. Although the school permanently shut down in 2019, its building has remained since 1925, making it a great spot to film titles set in any decade of the last century. In addition to IT: Welcome to Derry, Delta Secondary School also recently served as a shooting location for the Netflix slasher movie Fear Street: Prom Queen, which takes place in the year 1988.
One of the other main locations for the making of IT: Welcome to Derry was Canadian Forces Base Borden in Ontario, serving as the stand-in for the Derry Air Forces Base that Major Hanlon now calls home. Beyond that, additional studio work and scenes were shot in Toronto.
Witness all of these locations for yourself and see the fictional town of Derry come to life by tuning into IT: Welcome to Derry as episodes drop weekly on Sundays between now and December 14 at 9 pm ET, only on HBO Max.
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