A chat over tequila with director Andy Muschietti ended with a brand-new, terrifying sequence not in the book.
And the movie is very much about that.
Bill, played as an adolescent in the 2017 film by Jaeden Martell, is now a Hollywood screenwriter.
WithIt, he felt an “overwhelming sentimentality” as his own recollections blurred with Bill’s.
(Muschietti was her director on 2013’sMama.)
Being a major King fan, McAvoy squealed internally.
A few months later, McAvoy finally got the official call.
It’s a moment that emerged over drinks tequila, to be exact between the actor and director.
“I said to Andy, “What can we do?
‘…and literally in 50 minutes, he invented a whole new sequence.
It was never in the script, and it isn’t in the book.
It’s brilliant.”
“They’re completely different [roles],” he says.
You know, the usual.
