Andy Muschietti

Andy Muschietti

Andrés Walter 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 older 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andy Muschietti has received more than 1,917,882 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Andy Muschietti is the 1,382nd most popular film director (down from 1,228th in 2019), the 578th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 518th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Argentinean Film Director.