Genre:
Horror/Remake.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase:
Script Stage.
Who's In It:
Unknown.
Who's Making It:
Dave Kajganich (Screenwriter); based on the Stephen King novel Pet Sematary.
Premise:
A childrens pet sematary holds the power to bring beloved animals back to life -- but they don't come back the same.
Release Date:
Unknown.
Comments:
King's book was once filmed by Paramount as a movie back in 1989 that starred Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne. King wrote the screenplay to that adaptation himself. A sequel was released in 1992.
Rumors:
Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
March 9, 2004... Looks like there's life still in Stephen King's PET SEMATARY. King's 1982 horror novel about a spooked backwoods graveyard with the power to bring back to life dead pets was first filmed and released by Paramount Pictures in 1989, with a sequel following three years later. Now Paramount is interested in making a new SEMATARY movie again, this time a remake, and so has hired screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (FACE/OFF) to work on the adaptation.
The duo have just finished the pilot script for a proposed S.W.A.T. TV show and have a sci-fi/action/thriller titled ALIEN PRISON in development with Columbia Pictures.
[Variety.]
September 28, 2004... Writer Dave Kajganich has been hired by Paramount to adapt Stephen King's novel PET SEMATARY into a screenplay. This is the second writing assignment for the horror remake; earlier this year Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (FACE/OFF) were hired to work on the project. It appears that their draft is now dead.
Kajganich is carving out a name for himself in the horror genre within Hollywood. He's working on a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS for Warner Bros. and a remake of THE CHANGELING for Focus Features.
King's 1982 book told the story of a young family that moves to a rural home located near a children's pet "sematary". It turns out that the cemetary is also on the same patch of earth as a Indian burial ground which has the power to revive the dead (but they don't always come back the same as they were before.) [Variety.]
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