Barbara Muschietti | Part Three

producer on 10 years of horror, TV kicking her ass, and what actually terrifies her

Barbara Muschietti is the phenomenal producer behind IT: Chapter One & Two (combined $1.17B worldwide), The Flash, and the new HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry.

We actually met 5 years ago during my early podcast grind when I cold-emailed Barbara, inviting her on the show. She said yes! She invited me to the Warner Bros. lot, to her office, and generously gave me almost 3 hours of her time. It was a real turning point for me and the show.

The world, and certainly Hollywood, has changed tremendously since then.

Full disclosure: we recorded this mere days before the audacious news that Netflix won the bid to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery.

Five years later, we're back. Barbara opens up about "pushing a very, very heavy boulder," aka the reality of making movies even as an established producer with billions in box office success.

She talks about The Flash making $300 million worldwide and still being considered a disappointment. She gets raw about what she learned producing nine hours of IT: Welcome to Derry with child actors during the strikes. We also dig into the LA production crisis, why she still takes a photo of the Warner lot water tower every single morning, and she's terrified we might lose it.

Tune in!

xx cg

“TV was a big, big slice of humble pie in the things that I didn’t know.”

- Barbara Muschietti

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