IT Director Andy Muschietti Says the Supercut Is Coming, but WELCOME TO DERRY Comes First
If you've been waiting on Andy Muschietti's legendary It 6+ hour supercut, you're going to need a little more patience. The director has been teasing a mega-cut of It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two for years now, and while it isn't dead, it's currently sitting in the back seat while It: Welcome to Derry rides shotgun.
Muschietti recently spoke with /Film and was pretty straightforward about where things stand:
"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."
So what exactly is this supercut? The pitch has been on the table since before Chapter Two even hit theaters. The plan is to merge both films into a single, chronologically restructured experience, stuffed with deleted scenes and cut material, clocking in at around six and a half hours.
The catch is that this isn't purely an editing job. Some footage still needs to be shot, which means scheduling, budget, cast availability, and studio sign-off all have to align. Muschietti seems confident the money wouldn't be an issue if he asked, but finding the time? That's the real problem right now.
Here's the thing though, the timing question actually makes sense when you look at where Welcome to Derry landed after Season 1.
The show earned strong critical reviews, kept growing its audience throughout its eight-episode run, and peaked with a finale that outperformed every episode before it.
HBO hasn't officially greenlit Season 2 yet, but the creative team isn't waiting around for paperwork. Writers are writing, plans are in motion, and the vision for the series involves multiple seasons traveling further back through the IT mythology.
With all that momentum, Muschietti is betting on the show staying hot rather than cashing in on it immediately. That's a reasonable bet, but it does come with some risk.
The supercut's viability is tied to the franchise staying healthy. If Welcome to Derry stumbles down the road and loses its audience, convincing a studio to fund additional photography for a six-hour re-edit of two movies from 2017 and 2019 becomes a much harder conversation.
For now though, Pennywise's corner of the Stephen King universe is in genuinely good shape, and Muschietti is clearly playing a long game. The supercut is coming. Just maybe not this year.