Andrés "
Andy"
Muschietti (Spanish:
[musˈkjeti]; born August 26, 1973) is an
Argentine filmmaker who achieved wide recognition with the 2013 film
Mama which he made with
Neil Cross and his sister, producer and screenwriter
Barbara Muschietti, based on their three-minute film of the same name. The short, which he made at age 35, had attracted the attention of
Guillermo del Toro, who then served as executive producer on the feature adaptation.
He gained further recognition for directing both films in the
It film series, the first being
the 2017 film adaptation of the
Stephen King novel
It, which became the highest-grossing horror film of all time, and the second being its 2019 second part,
It Chapter Two. Both are distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures and produced by
New Line Cinema.
Muschietti is set to direct two upcoming films, also for Warner Bros.:
The Flash starring
Ezra Miller, set in the
DC Extended Universe, and a live-action adaptation of
Attack on Titan. He is also set to direct a
remake of
The Howling for
Netflix.