Cary Fukunaga now says that he left IT behind because there was tension between himself and the producers as they felt he couldn’t be controlled.
The studio quickly got working on the follow-up, IT: Chapter 2, which will arrive in theaters next September.
Creative differences quite often cause rifts between studios and directors, but the precise details regarding those differences are often a bit blurry.
Apparently, the studio liked what he did, as he was brought back to pen IT 2.