Andy Muschietti still wants to smoosh his IT movies into one six-hour nightmare
The director says the only thing stopping him from re-cutting 2017's IT and its 2019 sequel into a single film is "time."
IT: Welcome To Derry, Photo: HBO
Way back in 2019—and with his forthcoming blockbuster It Chapter Two still a week out from release—director Andy Muschietti started getting publicly ambitious in a way that felt very indicative of the cinematic boom times of that pre-COVID era. Muschietti revealed that he’d begun early talks with Warner Bros. about doing a “supercut” of his two Stephen King adaptations, reintegrating the relatively chronological films back into a form more reminiscent of King’s massive, era-hopping novel. And he’d throw in cut material and lost plotlines, too—although probably not that one—supposedly with an eye toward bringing the whole thing up to a six-hour running length.
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