Andy Muschietti is not accomplished with the IT franchise in the case of the massive display screen.
Forward of the season 1 finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, on which he serves as an government producer and co-creator, Andy Muschietti performed an AMA on Reddit alongside his sister, co-creator, and co-EP Barbara Muschietti. Whereas many questions centered on the siblings’ work with the IT franchise, one of the crucial common was associated to Andy’s previous feedback a couple of “supercut” IT film merging the 2017 and 2019 movies he directed into one.
In response as to whether his prolonged reduce with “hours of unused footage” was nonetheless occurring, Andy Muschietti revealed his IT supercut remains to be within the works. Although he hasn’t had time to carry it to fruition but, it is nonetheless a venture he has his eyes set on occurring:
“Sure nonetheless a giant dream of mine. Since we have been concerned closely on this present [IT: Welcome to Derry] we hadn’t had time to execute it. Crossing fingers.”
Contemplating Andy mentioned an IT supercut film again in 2019 following the second movie’s launch, it is a aid the venture hasn’t been deserted over six years later. Somewhat, different work has taken priority within the time since, together with bringing to life HBO’s hit IT: Welcome to Derry prequel sequence.
|
Film |
Runtime |
Field Workplace |
|---|---|---|
|
IT (2017) |
2 hours quarter-hour |
$702.8 million |
|
IT Chapter Two (2019) |
2 hours 49 minutes |
$473.1 million |
Updates on the IT supercut film have been few and much between because the 2019 movie, however a revival in curiosity is anticipated because the Muschiettis’ work on the franchise comes again into the highlight with Welcome to Derry. Nonetheless, whereas the duo’s present focus will possible stay on the way forward for the sequence, with each discussing a three-season plan for IT: Welcome to Derry, the recognition of the property on the small display screen may very well be translated to renewed demand on the massive display screen.
Presently, HBO has but to formally renew IT: Welcome to Derry for season 2, so there possible will not be a lot motion on a film supercut till the TV present’s destiny is set. That additionally applies to any potential future IT motion pictures, which have been mentioned as unconfirmed prospects by the Muschiettis after the season 1 finale.
That stated, if IT continues to seek out extended success on HBO with Welcome to Derry, there’s extra justification for Muschietti to lastly persuade Warner Bros. to carry his director’s supercut to fruition. With Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Invoice: The Complete Bloody Affair, equally combining Kill Invoice: Quantity 1 and Kill Invoice: Quantity 2 into a virtually five-hour-long single expertise, just lately performing effectively for a specialised restricted theatrical launch, there’s additionally the hope that IT may at some point obtain an identical launch in theaters.
If IT‘s supercut lastly strikes ahead as Andy Muschietti nonetheless intends, the movie is ready to incorporate scenes that had been absent from the unique motion pictures’ theatrical and digital releases. That may entail over six hours of footage reduce into one film, which comes simply slightly below the complete nearly-eight-hour runtime of Welcome to Derry season 1.