Andy Muschietti in Black Box: “When I accepted Flash I said ‘I can give him a heart, a soul'”

The Argentine is breaking it in Hollywood with his sister and sat down to chat in the studios of Caja Negra with Julio Leiva. The cineaste comes from adapting It, Stephen King’s best seller, on the big screen and continues to bet high in the DC universe. It is days away from the world premiere of The Flash, a film based on the comic Flashpoint, which will narrate the origan and concerns of Barry Allen. Today, in Caja Negra: Andy Muschietti.Cinema and television had a strong presence in the life of the Argentine director: “Encuentros Cernados is definitely the film that left me impressed. My old men took me to see her at the movies when I was 4 or 5 years old. There I experienced the magic of cinema for the first time and it is one of the first memories of my life… The horror of the final scene… It’s not a horror movie, but of course, when you’re five years old and you shit on it,” he recalled. When I was studying at film school, my sister was studying in Los Angeles and found out that they were going to film Evita in Argentina. We were both fans of Alan Parker and she got a job as a production coordinator. She was young, 23 or 24 years old. And he gets me a job as a set production assistant. I still thank him. It was a traumatic experience because I had done things here but when that monster came everything worked differently, “recalled the Argentine who will soon premiere this Thursday The Flash.Si we go to the black box of his life, what is the moment that makes him the person he is today?: “There is no moment, it is very gradual. Many aspects of my life are related to who I was in my childhood. There is a path that began when I was a kid, when my old man took me to the drive-in theater. I think this version of myself started that day they took me to the movies to see Close Encounters.” Towards the end of the interview the black box opens. An unexpected challenge begins. Week by week a figure will be submitted to the living room to dialogue and reflect. And you, do you dare to remember what moment a click made in your life?

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