It's common for directors in the midst of some success to set up a variety of potential projects. And that's clearly what's happening with It man Andy Muschietti, who has yet another possible film on his list. He's now developing a fresh re-imagining of HG Wells' The Time Machine.
Muschietti, working with producer sister Barbara, are currently at work on It: Chapter Two, but have not been shy in cashing in the kudos from the first Stephen King adaptation. Most recently, they set up a gig making the Attack On Titan movie for Warner Bros.
The Time Machine is also set up at Warners, with Paramount Pictures and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way company also involved. The Muschiettis have written a treatment for a film that would mark a new adaptation of the story about an inventor who crafts a way to travel in time, ending up 800,000 years in the future, where humanity has divided into two warring races, the peaceful, naieve Eloi and the angry, carnivorous Morlocks.
Wells' story has been adapted many times (there was a version starring Guy Pearce back in 2002) and a case could be made for switching to something new instead of revisiting a classic tale. But we'll intrigued to see what the Muschiettis do with it, assuming it actually comes to fruition.
It: Chapter Two, meanwhile, arrives on 6 September next year. Here's Everything You Need To Know.
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