IT director Andy Muschietti now adapting Attack on Titan and The Time Machine for the big screen
By Dan Selcke
When you’re hot you’re hot, and just last year, director Andy Muschietti made a tremendously successful movie about a killer clown from beyond the veil of reality, so he’s really hot. How is he using his newfound notoriety? Naturally, he’s directing IT: Chapter Two, which is due out next year. But he’s also signed on to a couple of other projects while the signing on its good.
First, Deadline reports that Muschietti will direct a new version of The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction story about an inventor who travels 800,000 years into the future, sees that it sucks, travels further into the future, sees the Earth get swallowed by the sun, and then hightails it back to present day, which is probably looking a whole lot more palatable by then.
This is the third time Wells’ story has been adapted to film; it hit the big screen once in 1960 and again in 2002, with Guy Pearce in the lead role. To make sure it’s successful, Warner Bros. is “steering the picture creatively,” according to Deadline. So we can all rest easy knowing that the studio behind Batman v Superman is in the drivers’ seat.
RELATED PRODUCT
Stark and Targaryen Sigil Women's Black T-shirt from Game of Thrones
Buy Now!
Buy Now!
The more interesting announcement comes from Variety, which reports that Muschietti will direct a live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan, a Japanese anime about a post-apocalyptic future where humanity huddles behind massive walls and lives in fear of man-eating naked giants with seriously messed-up facial expressions. It’s as weird as it sounds, and if you want to have bizarre dreams for a while I suggest you fire it up on Netflix tonight.
Like The Time Machine, there’s already been a live-action Attack on Titan movie, this time from director Shinji Higuchi. We can assume that Muschietti’s take, which will also be distributed by Warner Bros., will be in English and get a wider release in the U.S. and Europe. The more folks who see the naked people-eating giants, the better.
To stay up to date on everything Game of Thrones, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter.
Watch Game of Thrones for FREE with a no-risk, 7-day free trial of Amazon Channels