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Andy Muschietti on ‘IT’ Supercut: “We’re Going to Do It”
Since the release of IT: Chapter Two back in 2019, director Andy Muschietti has been toying with the idea of a supercut that would combine both It films along with additional footage into a single six-plus hour experience.
The good news is he’s still committed to making it happen. The bad news is he doesn’t know when.
“We didn’t have time to do it because we were involved in all kind of projects,” Muschietti tells Slash Film. “The show had a priority over the supercut,” he adds, referring to “IT: Welcome to Derry.”
Muschietti continues, “We’re in a moment now where we can definitely go to the studio and ask for support, but when is the question. They can say, ‘Yeah, go for it,’ but now we are sort of committed, like happily committed, to season 2 of ‘Welcome to Derry.’ And there’s other movie projects going around. But we’re going to do it.”
Muschietti’s IT films adapted Stephen King‘s 1986 novel in two parts, with the first focused on the Losers Club as kids and the second centered on their adult counterparts. The proposed supercut would likely restructure them to more closely resemble the book.
Muschietti is more in-demand than ever these days. In addition to the IT supercut and plans for two more seasons of “IT: Welcome to Derry,” he’s attached to helm the DCU Batman movie The Brave and the Bold.
Muschietti also produced They Will Kill You, in theaters today.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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