Andy Muschietti Replaces Cary Fukunaga For Stephen King’s ‘It’
By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2015 12:59 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Warner Bros has been trying to remake Stephen King’s It for over six years now. The project, now at New Line, was most recently going to be directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective), but the filmmaker left the project after clashing with the studio. But now New Line has found a new filmmaker for their It adaptation: Andrés Muschietti (also known as Andy Muschietti), the director behind the Universal horror hit Mama.
Andy Muschietti Replaces Cary Fukunaga For Stephen King’s ‘It’
By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2015 12:59 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Warner Bros has been trying to remake Stephen King’s It for over six years now. The project, now at New Line, was most recently going to be directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective), but the filmmaker left the project after clashing with the studio. But now New Line has found a new filmmaker for their It adaptation: Andrés Muschietti (also known as Andy Muschietti), the director behind the Universal horror hit Mama.
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New It Movie Director: Andy Muschietti
I was very impressed by Muschietti’s short film Mama, which director Guillermo del Toro called one of the scariest short films he’s ever seen. I was less impressed by the feature film adaptation of that short film, although the cinematography was outstanding. This isn’t the first time Muschietti has been attached to a Stephen King project — earlier this year he optioned feature rights to The Jaunt, the 1981 Stephen King short story About teleportation travel.
Fukunaga had written the scripts for both It movies with Chase Palmer. Fukunaga’s It was supposed to film last month in New York, but Fukunaga had been butting heads with the studio about his vision for the project, following budget cuts instituted by studio New Line. New Line took issue with Fukunaga’s insistence on shooting in New York, instead of a cheaper location, among other things
New Line wanted a single, more commercial movie. The studio was also nervous by the disappointing opening weekend performance of Fox’s Poltergeist, in part because the marketing campaign also featured a clown.
But if you asked me when I was 11-years old, what my favorite Stephen King movie was, I would quickly tell you — the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of It. It scared me, kept me up, and I loved it. I remember rewatching the VHS copy that I had recorded off of cable, over and over again.
