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It director Andy Muschietti developing Stephen King adaptation The Jaunt

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Having completed his adaptation of the horror classic It with this month’s It Chapter Two, director Andy Muschietti recently signed on to produce an adaptation of Stephen King’s Richard Bachman novel Roadwork, and now he has confirmed to Consequence of Sound (via Bloody Disgusting) that he also remains attached to an adaptation of King’s short […]

Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)

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It Chapter Two, 2019.Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the […]

Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)

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It Chapter Two, 2019.Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the […]

It director Andy Muschietti confirms The Flash will be his next film

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After several years stuck in development hell, not to mention numerous director shake-ups, it looks at though Warner Bros. and DC Films’ planned superhero movie The Flash may finally be ready to get out of the starting blocks.Last month it was announced that It director Andy Muschietti has become the latest filmmaker to board the […]

Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)

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It Chapter Two, 2019.Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:27 years after the Loser’s Club stopped Pennywise’s reign of terror […]

It Ends in new featurette for Chapter Two of the Stephen King adaptation

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Following a batch of Losers’ Club character posters for It Chapter Two, Warner Bros. has now released a featurette for the hotly-anticipated horror which includes interviews with director Andy Muschietti, author Stephen King, and Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard; watch it here…SEE ALSO: Read our It Chapter Two review hereBecause every 27 years evil revisits the town […]

Exclusive Interview – Director Andy Muschietti talks It Chapter Two

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It Chapter Two finally arrives in cinemas this week, and it’s a chilling thrill ride. We dove into the depths of Derry itself to discover more about Pennywise’s return and what he’s got in store for the Losers’ Club. Warner Bros. created a warped version of the film’s funfair inside the Waterloo Vaults in London […]

Guillermo del Toro almost made a cameo appearance in It Chapter Two

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Andy Muschietti, director of It Chapter Two, has recently confirmed in an interview with SlashFilm that he was very close to having Guillermo del Toro make a cameo appearance in the upcoming sequel. However, due to scheduling issues, the cameo just wasn’t meant to be.According to Muschietti, the cameo would have seen del Toro play the […]

Andy Muschietti hopes to release directors cuts of It Chapter One and Chapter Two

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It director Andy Muschietti has stated that he hopes to release a director’s cut for both It Chapter One and It Chapter Two, and a super-cut that features both movies back-to-back.In a recent interview with SFX (via GamesRadar), Muschietti stated:“The possibilities are open. There’s a version where the two movies are cut together. There’s a version where […]

James McAvoy discusses the It Chapter Two hall of mirrors sequence

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During the latest trailer for It Chapter Two, one of the most memorable sequences was Bill Denbrough (played by James McAvoy) walking through a carnival funhouse and a hall of mirrors to save a young child from Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard).As it turns out that scene wasn’t included in the original script, as McAvoy has revealed in […]