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Kajganich Writing Pet Sematary Redo

BluGilliandBluGilliand
edited September 2004 in General news
Variety reports that Paramount has hired horror specialist Dave Kajganich to write its revival of Pet Sematary, produced by Alphaville.



Kajganich, who's spec Town Creek is set up at Warner Bros., has also been hired to write the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Warner and an update of 1979 ghost tale The Changeling for Focus Features.



Earlier this year Paramount hired the scripting team of Mike Werb and Michael Colleary to pen a reimagining of Pet Sematary. The film is based on Stephen King's story of a family moving to a small Maine town with a pet cemetery and an Indian burial ground, in 1989.

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  • BluGilliandBluGilliand
    I really liked the original film version of "Pet Sematary" (and it's one of my favorite King books, so I'm picky about it). Looking back, some of the acting was a little wooden, but the stuff with Zelda....brrr, creepy. I'm interested to see where this goes, though.



    Blu
  • DTUKDTUK
    Overall I thought the first pet Sematary was okay though they could have had other leads than Dale Midkiff and that girl from the Star Trek TNG series.



    Jud Crandall was brilliant and well cast, imo :)



    Would be cool to see a remake made I think :)
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    George Clooney is apparently in talks to play a role in Paramount Pictures' remake of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary" reports Bloody Disgusting.



    It's unsure which role he has in the remake which was written by Dave Kajganich, Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. One suspects though that it will be the role of either the leading man Louis or the neighbour Jud. The film is based on Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name that was previously adapted onto film in 1989.
  • flaggflagg
    Bloody Disgusting wrote:





    Although our source was very secure (and double checked), George Clooney's publicist tells us that he will NOT be in Paramount's remake of Pet Sematary. We're going to look further into this story as it appears that they are beginning to cast the film...
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Matthew Greenberg (Reign of Fire, Halloween: H20, Mimic), who wrote the Stephen King adaptation "1408," is moving on to another King property, "Pet Sematary." Lorenzo di Bonaventura recently boarded as producer on the long-gestating project, which is set up at Paramount.



    Paramount brought the book to life in 1989, with a feature version adapted by King that starred Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne. At one point, George Clooney was circling the new film



    Read more: http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=16960&count=0#ixzz0hIg5WOvO
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