Director Andy Muschietti Confirms The It Supercut Is Still In The Works

It and It Chapter Two will soon become It: The Whole Darn Circus or whatever they wind up calling it.

Stephen King‘s 1986 doorstopper, It, begat a butt-numbing 192 minute TV miniseries back in 1990, then two whole feature films in 2017 and 2019. Now those latter two are apparently being welded together, Kill Bill style, into one whopping long movie, hopefully with an intermission. At least, that’s the plan according to director Andy Muschietti, as reported in Deadline.

Now, word of a re-edited supercut of both films has been going around since the latter film was released in 2019, but other things – like The Flash and the HBO Max series It: Welcome To Derry, got in the way. And the second season of Welcome To Derry is still holding things up, as Muschietti and his sister and producer, Barbara Muschietti, are currently working on that.

“We’re in a moment now where we can definitely go to the studio and ask for support,” Andy said. “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.”

The plan, when time allows, is to include all, or at least most, the material deleted in consideration of running time, along with incorporating newly shot footage, to arrive at a running time somewhere north of six hours, with Andy explaining on X, “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.”

So yes, we’re still getting It: The Clown Car Cut, but it may be a little down the track.