Sibling Fights and Similar Taste Helped Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti Produce ‘They Will Kill You’ [EXCLUSIVE]
Working with your sibling cannot be easy. But both Andy Muschietti and his sister Barbara Muschietti do it all the time. They had to work closely together on the IT movies and Welcome to Derry and now their new film, They Will Kill You, put them together again.
I was lucky enough to speak to the Muschietti siblings about working together and shared one important thing with them: Their relationship reminded me of my own with my older brother. My middle brother and I are very similar, we like the same things and talk about them all the time. We also bicker and he knows when he’s made me too angry and vice versa. The Muschietti siblings seem very similar and I have always loved how they interact with each other.
At the premiere at SXSW for They Will Kill You, Andy made a joke about how they found the script for the film and, without missing a beat, Barbara rolled her eyes and said “That’s how we found this movie?” I loved it. But it did make me wonder how the two functioned as siblings with work and finding a balance between a professional relationship with their familial one.
“It’s great. We do different things honestly, but there’s a lot of intersection. And again, we fight every day,” Andy joked. But Barbara clarified that their sibling squables are never about the project. “But it’s never about taste. And it’s never, you know, our fights are always about sibling things. Like you are annoying me.”
Andy joked that it was her “personality flaws” he’d fight about with her and Barbara said that he’d “stand too close” to her and that she’d yell at him for “breathing on me.” But as she pointed out: They have been together in this world for 52 years.
The sibling reaction to something is strong
Part of being a sibling is, often, having a similar upbringing. Meaning you tend to have the same taste as them. Or at least that’s my experience. I know what my brothers will watch and what they won’t. They know what I’ll love and what will make me furious. But for the Muschietti’s, their reactions tend to be the same and that’s how they know when something is special.
“In projects like this because we react the same way, we know that we like this, this what happened when we read the script. This is a movie that we wanna wanna made,” Andy said. “And the fastest way to watch it is to make it. And we trusted in Kirill (Sokolov)’s sensibilities and instincts. And we just knew he had a clear vision.”
I am a fan of the work the Muschietti siblings bring to us and I cannot wait to see what they do next. And you all need to see They Will Kill You in theaters on March 27.
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