Dick Hallorann, originally introduced in Stephen King’s The Shining , has had a surprisingly big role to play in It: Welcome to Derry . The character has a cameo role in King’s original 1986 It novel, one greatly expanded for the new HBO series. In this series, he’s played by actor Chris Chalk. But developments in the fifth and sixth episodes connect the TV character to part of his backstory first explored in King’s 2013 novel Doctor Sleep , the sequel to The Shining , later made into a film by Mike Flanagan.

In the fifth episode of Welcome to Derry , the U.S. military forces, under the orders of General Shaw, descend into the tunnels of Derry, Maine . The hope is to trap the entity we know of as Pennywise to use as a weapon. But of course, Pennywise is an ancient being th

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