Pet Sematary Remake in the works

[Spider-ManHero12]

I haven't either. I've read Christine and The Shining.

 

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Pet Sematary Remake Digs Up a Director

by Max Nicholson
October 31, 2013
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28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is now in talks to return to the horror genre for Paramount's Pet Sematary remake.
Variety reports that Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce the film, based on Stephen King's story about a family plagued by undead creatures from a nearby cemetery.
Steven Schneider will produce alongside Di Bonaventura. Matt Greenberg and David Kajganich penned the screenplay

 

[DarkKnight88]

The book is amazing. Scary but emotional. Hope they do a better job here than the 1989 film. While I think that film has its moments, the acting was just downright terrible (except for Mr. Munster).

 

[bubbadoom]

The book reads like it was written to be a movie - and then King screws up the script, especially with the Pascow character - hope they are more faithful this time around.

And let's see that Wendingo as described in the book...!

 

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1st Draft For Pet Semetary By End of Summer

Posted: August 8, 2014, 14:59:51
Section: Film » Pet Sematary - remake
Dread Central reports that Jeff Buhler is aboard director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Pet Sematary reboot for Paramount as the project’s screenwriter. Read more here.

 

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Pet Sematary Reboot

Posted: July 23, 2015, 00:05:55
Section: Film » Pet Sematary - remake

Jeff Buhler talks Pet Sematary reboot with Dread Central

A remake of the original 1989 horror classic, which was directed by Mary Lambert and based on the novel of the same name by horror legend Stephen King, Buhler said of the status of his scripted re-imagining of Pet Sematary, “Since last we spoke [see our previous coverage here], director Juan Carlos and I literally spent another three months going over the script and fine-tuning the horror to the place where it needed to be.”

Buhler expounded of the reboot, which is being produced for Paramount by Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Mark Varhadian, “The characters in this script make some tragic decisions, and the horror is about the ramifications of those decisions. There are still the supernatural aspects of the book, with the pet cemetery and the burial ground from which things come back from the dead, but the real horror is, ‘What do these things do to the family? What does it do to a person to see their child killed, but then to know that they can bring them back? How do you tussle with that idea? And if and when you make that choice, what does that do to you? Will that child be the same? How can life ever return to normal?’”

He continued of their take, “This is pretty far from the 1980’s film, which I adore for certain things that are very intrinsic to that time period in terms of the genre, like a truck driver smoking a joint to a Ramones song. But when a little kid comes back with a scalpel and is like, ‘I want to play with you,’ it kind of becomes Chucky. With this one, we really wanted to get into the emotional aspects of it. There’s still plenty of visceral horror that’s explored, but I’ve always felt that if you lean more into the characters and into their emotional lives, when the visceral **** hits the fan, it’s ten times more scary.”

As for an intended start date of principal photography, Buhler said, “Right now the film’s budget is up for approval at the studio. We have the new script [completed] and will be ready to go when Juan Carlos returns from New York in August. He’s currently there shooting a pilot called ‘Falling Water’ for Gale Anne Hurd’s company, so hopefully things will be up and running in terms of production by the end of the year.”

 

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Guillermo del Toro tweeted earlier today of his desire to film a version of Stephen King's resurrection classic, Pet Sematary. And yes, he's well aware there's already an adaptation from the late '80s, but that's not going to dampen his spirits.


del Toro calls King's 1983 novel "unrelentingly dark and emotional," dubbing the book a "compulsive read" before revealing that he "would kill to make it on film." There's probably not a lot who'd argue with him on all of those points, especially if they'd like to keep living. In retrospect, the 1989 movie opted out of hefty scares and felt a little rushed, unlike the novel that builds to its denouement slowly.
To see the pair join forces would delight horror hounds. King's writing, packed with solid characters and hideous scenarios, is not unlike del Toro's movie worlds, but, alas, there's the little matter of the remake that's already in development.
The Invasion scribe Dave Kajganich penned an early draft that's now got 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Midnight Meat Train writer Jeff Buhler attached. However, that project has been in the works for several years. Maybe del Toro's clout could get things rolling again.

 

[Marvolo]

Add it to the list of movies GDT wants to direct but never actually will.

 

[Octoberist]

Damn that was a non-story.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

Add it to the list of movies GDT wants to direct but never actually will.

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It Director and Producer Discuss Their Dreams of Remaking Pet Sematary

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/252324/director-producer-discuss-dreams-remaking-pet-sematary/

 

[Boom]

I'd really like Jennifer Kent for this.

 

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Stephen King ‘Pet Sematary’ Remake Lands ‘Starry Eyes’ Duo Dennis Widmyer & Kevin Kolsch

http://deadline.com/2017/10/pet-sem...-widmyer-kevin-kolsch-starry-eyes-1202198224/

 

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Pet Sematary and Instant Family Get 2019 Release Dates from Paramount

Pet SemataryMovie News paramount pictures
By Jenna Busch
ON December 7, 2017

Paramount Pictures sets 2019 release dates for Pet Sematary and Instant Family

Paramount Pictures has set release dates for two upcoming films. Pet Sematary, a reboot of the Stephen King classic, has been given a slot on April 19, 2019 and Instant Family, starring Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, is set for February 15, 2019.

The Easter weekend release date for Pet Sematary puts it opposite only Open Road’s Playmobil. The film will be directed by Kevin Klosch and Dennis Widmyer. Jeff Buhler adapted the script from the novel. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Steven Schneider and Mark Vahradian will produce.
The film is an updated version of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. The following is how the 1983 book is described as follows: The road in front of Dr. Louis Creed’s rural Maine home frequently claims the lives of neighborhood pets. Louis has recently moved from Chicago to Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their children and pet cat. Near their house, local children have created a cemetery for the dogs and cats killed by the steady stream of transports on the busy highway. Deeper in the woods lies another graveyard, an ancient Indian burial ground whose sinister properties Louis discovers when the family cat is killed.
Paramount brought the book to life in 1989 with a feature version adapted by King that starred Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne. That version of the 1983 Stephen King novel grossed $57.5 million at the box office.
The February 15 release date for Instant Family will put it opposite 20th Century Fox/Marvel’s Gambit, Warner Bros./New Line’s Isn’t It Romantic and Universal/Blumhouse’s untitled film. Instant Family is the story of a couple who want to have children and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids who have no interest in being parented. Directed by Sean Anders, the film was written by Sean Anders and Brian Burns. Anders, John Morris, Wahlberg and Steve Levinson are producing.
What do you think about the release dates for Pet Sematary and Instant Family? Let us know in the comments.

 

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Pet Sematary Remake Shooting In May

Posted: March 22, 2018, 09:25:14
Section: Film » Pet Sematary - remake​

According to Omega Underground a remake of Pet Sematary will start shooting in May in Toronto.
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In October, Variety revealed that the studio had hired Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyerto direct the horror film. Jeff Buhler and David Kajganichare penning the script based on the novel by King.
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I asked David about it and he didn’t think they were using his script but didn’t know for sure.

To me it seems a bit early to start filming in May when there hasn’t been any casting news at all but we’ll see.

More info when it comes…​

 

[Hordakfan]

Who can play Pascow or Rachel? yet who would like to see the Wendigo in this one even mentioned as the one who cursed the ground and possessed the body of Timmy?

 

[James.B]

Jason Clarke is in negotiations to star in Pet Sematary, Paramount’s new adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/jason-clarke-talks-star-pet-sematary-remake-1102774?__twitter_impression=true

Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, the duo who co-directed the 2014 fantasy horror feature Starry Eyes, are helming the project, which Paramount previously translated in 1989.

Sematary, first published in 1983, told of a doctor who moves his family out of the big city to the country. The man discovers that they have moved near a pet cemetery that rests on an ancient burial ground and when the husband's toddler son is killed in an auto accident, the father takes the boy's body to the cemetery, where it is resurrected in demonic form. Jeff Buhler wrote the most recent draft of the adaptation.

Clarke will play the doctor. Dale Midkiff played the part in the 1989 movie.

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

Good choice. I’ve been listening to the new audiobook recently, and was hoping the slim chance they’d get Michael C. Hall for Louis. But this is a solid fit with Clarke. Looking forward to this.

 

[Marvolo]

Clarke (48 years old) is a bit older than I was expecting. I figured they'd cast someone in their thirties.

 

[terry78]

Jason Clarke to take the lead. Eh, I always get him and Joel edergton mixed up.

 

[Drizzle]

I was hoping for someone like Oscar Isaac but Clarke isn't bad. I didn't know he was 48, I thought he was younger than that.

 

[James.B]

John Lithgow will play Jud Crandall in the remake of Stephen King's Pet Sematary
http://ew.com/movies/2018/05/04/john-lithgow-jud-crandall-stephen-king-pet-sematary-remake/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

John Lithgow will play the kindly but lonely country neighbor Jud Crandall in the new film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, Paramount Pictures tells EW.
The movie, which will shoot this summer with plans to be in theaters April 19, 2019, has already cast Jason Clarke as Louis Creed, the dad who strikes up a close friendship with the old-timer next door.
Jud has lived in the area long enough to know its many secrets, and he takes the young family on a tour of nearby woods that leads to a peculiar pet burial ground. Later, he guides Louis far beyond the rudimentary “pet sematary” to an even stranger place deep in the wilderness after a speeding truck on their rural road claims the life of the family’s pet.

The new version of Pet Sematary will be directed by Starry Eyes filmmakers Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, with a script by Jeff Buhler (showrunner of Syfy’s George R.R. Martin space series Nightflyers.)
Pet Sematary is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, best known for the Transformers movies and the 2007 King adaptation 1408, which starred John Cusack as a writer who spends a mindbending night in a haunted hotel room.
The other producers are Mark Vahradian, another veteran of the Transformers series, and Steven Schneider, best known for the Insidious movies.
Plans for the remake were in the works for several years, but the success of It last year, as well as the popularity of Netflix’s King adaptations Gerald’s Game, 1922, and Hulu’s JFK assassination thriller 11/22/63, put Pet Sematary on the fast track.

 

[Mysteryman]

So, is George Clooney involved in this?
If not, shouldn't the title of the thread reflect that?

 

[The Joker]

Lithgow is a great casting choice for Jud.

 

[BH/HHH]

Yeah great casting, really looking forward to this.