HBO’s upcoming series It: Welcome to Derry co-showrunner Jason Fuchs, who is also writing Netflix and Legendary Entertainment’s live-action My Hero Academia film, says he sees some similarities between the two projects.
Speaking to Polygon, Fuchs explained, “In Welcome to Derry, we have a group of outsiders who have to come together to defeat a great evil. In My Hero Academia, we’re also writing about an outsider like Deku, who doesn’t quite fit in because he doesn’t have the quirks of his contemporaries and peers. So yeah, I think there’s some commonality, but they’re such different stories that clearly go off into very different places.”
Fuchs added that the My Hero Academia film is still in the writing phase and casting hasn’t started yet. “But I will say that when we get around to making My Hero Academia, we should be lucky enough to find young actors who are as talented and gifted as this group was, and just lovely humans, too,” he said.
Legendary Entertainment acquired the rights to produce a live-action My Hero Academia film in 2018. Japanese director Shinsuke Sato, known for live-action adaptations of Gantz, Bleach, Inuyashiki, and Kingdom, will make his English-language debut with the project. Netflix joined as distributor in 2022, with Obi-Wan Kenobi writer and executive producer Joby Harold initially handling the screenplay. Fuchs was brought in to rewrite the script in September this year, with Sato still attached as director.
As for It: Welcome to Derry, the prequel series expands on the It film universe and ties into Stephen King’s larger mythos. The show premieres on HBO on October 26, 2025.
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2025-10-22 07:08:00
