Andy Muschietti has been talking about this IT supercut since 2019, and it’s still not here. But he’s not dropping it either. In a new SlashFilm interview promoting They Will Kill You, he gave another update, and the answer is basically the same as last time. They want to do it. They just haven’t had time.
Six Hours, New Scenes, and a Schedule That Keeps Getting in the Way
The idea is to combine It and It: Chapter Two into one film. All the deleted scenes, new footage Muschietti still needs to shoot, and a restructured edit that makes the two parts flow as one story.
The running time would hit at least six and a half hours. It and Chapter Two together already run over five hours. The additions push it past six. Barbara Muschietti gave the simplest explanation for why it hasn’t happened. “Time,” she said. That’s it.
Andy was more specific. “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.“
Warner Bros. has no real reason to say no. It made $700 million in 2017. It: Chapter Two made $473 million in 2019. It: Welcome to Derry pulled 6.5 million US viewers for its season 1 finale on HBO. That’s a billion-dollar franchise, and a supercut is not a hard pitch to make.
The material is already there. One of the deleted scenes everyone wants to see is the Maturin turtle, the ancient cosmic entity from King’s books, showing up in Bill’s basement in Chapter Two.
It was cut because the scene was mostly underwater and expensive to get right. Muschietti has confirmed it exists. It would be in the supercut.
Stephen King is on board, too. Barbara Muschietti said King asked how the supercut was going during one of their conversations. He apparently called it “a dream come true.” That’s nothing.
What’s blocking it right now is Welcome to Derry Season 2. Muschietti has mapped out a three-season arc for the show. Season 2 goes back to 1935. Season 3 to 1908. Until that’s done, the supercut sits in the queue.
It’s been in development for seven years at this point. The supercut is coming eventually. Just not soon.
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