Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists.
Every installment asks the same five questions. This week’s subject is Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, who today open their new film, the Ezra Miller starrer The Flash for Warner Bros and DC.
The Muschietti duo — he directs, and they write and produce — came out of Argentina and made their breakthrough with the haunting 2008 short Mama. They made the film with Luther creator Neil Cross, and it was embraced by Guillermo del Toro, who helped them turn it into a 2013 feature starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Their growth from there has been meteoric. Their adaptation of the Stephen King novel It became the highest-grossing horror films ever with more than $700 million in global grosses. They followed with the conclusion to that tale, It Chapter Two, before signing on for The Flash. They just set themselves to make Batman: Brave and the Bold, and they’ve made a first look deal at Warner Bros. Here, they explain the formative influences that got them onto the A-list.
