As the Muschiettis gear up for another trip to Derry, the siblings behind It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) also have plans to revisit the films with a long-awaited supercut.
Barbara Muschietti recently explained that “time” is what’s currently holding them back from releasing a combined version of their two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel, which Andy Muschietti teased back in 2019.
“We didn’t have time to do it because we were involved in all kind of projects,” added Andy in an interview with SlashFilm. “The show had a priority over the supercut.
“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,” he said.
In 2019, Andy revealed they were in “early talks” with Warner Bros. for the supercut, which would include all the scenes deleted for time constraints, as well as some newly filmed sequences. The cut is expected to surpass six hours.
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Andy previously explained in January, “It will possibly have a different structure and will have extra scenes, added scenes. I still have to film some of them … because they are the interstitial fabric between the pieces of the story.”
Following the Season 1 finale of the prequel series It: Welcome to Derry in December, which scared up a record audience of 6.5M U.S. viewers across its first three days, HBO boss Casey Bloys told Deadline in January that the Muschiettis are hard at work on Season 2.
“Let me say, not in limbo at all. Hardly. It was a huge success for us,” said Bloys. “Andy and Barbara are hard at work trying to come up with an idea for a story they’d want to tell for another season. I would happily do it. One of the challenges is, there’s not a book that you’re basing it on, so it’s invention. They want to make sure that they have a story they’re excited to tell. So it’s not limbo other than they need to land on something the”re excited by creatively. We’ll be there.”
Andy explained that he has a three-season arc in mind, with each season going back in time 27 years, to each of It’s attacks on Derry.