Some scenes said to be in Derry were shot elsewhere. During production, the producers of the 2017 film adaptation and its 2019 sequel needed a small town in which to film, and Port Hope, Ontario, was used for much of the exterior work for both movies. In 2016, it was announced that a new adaptation of It would split the novel into a two-part motion picture.
īesides the oft-used trinity of Derry, Castle Rock, and Jerusalem's Lot, King has created other fictional Maine towns, including Haven in The Tommyknockers, Little Tall Island in Dolores Claiborne and Storm of the Century, and Chester's Mill in Under the Dome.
While the town would be mentioned in various other stories, it was not until King's 1986 novel It when the town was used as a fully rendered setting. The town of Derry was first mentioned in Stephen King's 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album". King, a native of Durham, Maine, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns-Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem's Lot-as central settings in more than one work. A map on King's official website, though, places Derry in the vicinity of the town of Etna. Derry first appeared in King's 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album" and has reappeared as recently as his 2011 novel 11/22/63.ĭerry is said to be near Bangor, but King explicitly told his biographer, Tony Magistrale, that Derry is actually his portrayal of Bangor. state of Maine that has served as the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels, novellas, and short stories, notably It.
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