By Travis Johnson
The Stephen King train keeps right on a-rolling with the news that Paramount is moving forward on a new adaptation of Pet Sematary, King’s 1983 novel of resurrected pets and kids. The film is set for an April 19, 2019 US release, with Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer (Starry Eyes) co-directing a script by Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train).
This is, of course, not the first time Pet Sematary has come to the screen. Mary Lambert directed an adaptation back in 1989 that , a great turn from Fred “Herman Munster” Gwynne aside, doesn’t really have too much going for it. So this is a remake we should welcome, yes? Starry Eyes was a genuinely unique slice of unsettling horror, and it’s about time Kolsch and Widmyer got another feature under their belts (they’ve done a few eps of Scream: The TV Series and a segment of the anthology movie Holidays since Starry Eyes landed in 2014). Surely there’s little chance they couldn’t improve on this:
Hopefully they keep The Ramones on the soundtrack, though.
