Filmmaker Andy Muschietti, screenwriter Gary Dauberman and half a dozen of the actors from Warner Bros./New Line's horror offering 'It Chapter Two' take THR inside the adaptation of Stephen King's horror classic.
He had to work all day on that Monday, Aug. 2, with a schedule that pushed him straight from a packed junket in the morning to thepremiere at the Regency Village in Westwood by sunset. Steps away from landing at the top of the carpet — red would've worked but it was replaced by a more mood-setting black — Muschietti celebrated turning 46 by grabbing a prop bicycle and cruising half a block down the line, past the waiting press and photographers.
"We really wanted to keep the dialogue between the two timelines," explained Muschietti's producing partner and sister Barbara Muschietti. "It was a challenge to manage this production as a whole because we knew thatwas a lot more ambitious. We had a lot more material to cover as the first film [represents] about 300 pages of the book while the second is closer to 900 pages." and is the sole credited writer on . Aside from King, of course.
It was an important scene for King to have in the book hence why Andy Muschietti wanted it in his film. "It was an event of real life that completely shocked Stephen King as he was writing about something that he was also thinking about — the underlying evil of real people on real communities in America. For me, its relevant to the times we are living in now," he said. "Life is made of all of this — brutal things, violence, horror, fear, humor, love.
Recalled Chosen Jacobs of that day he laid eyes on Isaiah Mustafa: "I was like, OK, I look pretty good! I hope I look like him one day." He got more than a few inside the theater as did Bill Hader, who said that when he first sat down with Andy Muschietti to discuss the project, they bonded over classic horror films. "We have similar tastes so we were like yeah, let’s do this. We talked about, which we have a reference to in the movie. Mostly those kind of late 70s, early 80s monster things," he said. "People love a good story and [Stephen King] is a really good storyteller.
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