As a prequel to 2017's "It" and 2019's "It Chapter Two," HBO's "It: Welcome to Derry" fills in a lot of gaps left by the two movies. The show will be crucial viewing for fans of Stephen King's novels as it's set to delve deeper into the "macroverse" and the way in which the author's stories are all interconnected. One example is the character of Dick Hallorann, who's best known as the head chef of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" but who has roots in Derry. In the 1962-set series, he's played by Chris Chalk, who previously portrayed a young Lucius Fox in Fox's "Gotham" and Paul Drake in HBO's short-lived "Perry Mason" origin series.
What's Dick Hallorann doing in Derry? Well, any real fan will surely know that the character is mentioned in the original "It" novel and it seems for Cha