It's a Wonderful Life issued in home media. In 1990, another made-for-television film called "Clarence" starred Robert Carradine in a new tale of the helpful angel. A purported sequel was in development for a 2015 release, and was to be called "It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story". It was to be written by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton and follow the angel of George Bailey's daughter Zuzu (played once again by Karolyn Grimes), as she teaches Bailey's evil grandson how different the world would have been if he had never been born. Producers were considering directors and hoped to shoot the
It's a Wonderful Life having Colorization, Inc., colorize "It's a Wonderful Life" based on an enthusiastic response to the colorization of "Topper" from actor Cary Grant. The company's art director Brian Holmes prepared 10 minutes of colorized footage from "It's a Wonderful Life" for Capra to view, which resulted in Capra signing a contract with Colorization, Inc., and his "enthusiastic agree[ment] to pay half the $260,000 cost of colorizing the movie and to share any profits" and giving "preliminary approval to making similar color versions of two of his other black-and-white films, "Meet John Doe" (1941) and "Lady for a Day" (1933)". However, the