It Filmmaker Andy Muschietti Confirms He Still Wants a Massive Supercut of Both Films With New Footage

He’s inactive connected board! It mastermind Andy Muschietti precocious opened up astir whether oregon not helium inactive plans to make a monolithic supercut of It and It: Chapter Two that would extremity up moving implicit six and a fractional hours long.

During a caller reddit Q&A league for his caller amusement It: Welcome to Derry, the filmmaker was asked: "[You've] antecedently talked astir doing an Extended Cut that merges It and It Chapter Two successful 1 seamless acquisition with hours of unused footage. Is this Cut inactive happening?"

To which Muschietti past responded: "Yes, inactive a large imagination of mine. Since we've been progressive heavy successful this show, we haven't had clip to execute it. Crossing fingers."

After It: Chapter Two was released successful 2019, the filmmaker revealed helium wanted to make a supercut of the 2 movies that would see wholly caller footage, deleted scenes, and adjacent scenes that ne'er made it past the penning process.

One country successful peculiar that was primitively going to beryllium included focused connected a celestial turtle named Maturin that appears successful Bill’s basement. The turtle is simply a staple of galore King stories and arsenic a cosmic entity precise aged and wise, helium serves arsenic the antithesis to evil entities similar Pennywise. The country was primitively acceptable to instrumentality spot underwater, and yet was scrapped owed to pacing.

Muschietti has had his hands beauteous afloat lately, truthful helium decidedly hasn’t had clip to get into the chopped conscionable yet. He and woman Barbara Muschietti developed It: Welcome to Derry alongside showrunner Jason Fuchs backmost successful 2022, conscionable 3 years aft Chapter Two. The bid premiered connected HBO Max successful October to a mostly affirmative response, and conscionable closed retired its archetypal play connected December 14.

The filmmaker is locked successful for astatine slightest 2 much seasons of Welcome to Derry, with the amusement — which presently takes spot successful 1962 — doing 2 much important clip jumps. Season 2 is acceptable to instrumentality spot successful 1935 and play 3 volition instrumentality spot successful 1908.

It: Welcome to Derry is present disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max, alongside some of Muschietti’s It films.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.