It: Welcome to Derry creator says the finale's fog is "unrelated" to Stephen King's The Mist before immediately explaining how they are, in fact, related

Across its eight-episode run, It: Welcome to Derry has been bursting with Easter eggs – most of which were deep-cut novel references and wider nods to Stephen King's other works, like Carrie or The Shawshank Redemption.In the finale, as General Shaw and the military forced It out of his 27-year hibernation, a fog descended upon the titular town. It looked, admittedly, a lot like the haze in King's 1980 thriller The Mist, which sees protagonist David Drayton forced to hide from the vicious