First Showing gives us the update:
Screenwriter Matthew Greenberg (Halloween H20, 1408) is finally turning in his script for the remake of Pet Sematary – or rather re-adaptation, as Greenberg went to Stephen King’s novel again.
Well, if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Paramount still wants this to happen, and while I want to be hyped for it, something gives me pause. Greenberg has been slaving over the script for a year now. Since he had go back and do it over, that means either his previous draft wasn’t great or it wasn’t great in the eye of the beholder. He’s still on the project, so the studio still likes him.
Stephen King adapted from his book the previous go-around, and that left out some of the grotesque imagery from the book as well as Gage’s sister. Gage, back from the dead, was possessed by a demonic spirit, talked like an adult in his dead stage and feasted on corpses.
So I wonder if any of that might crop him this time out.
Do we still want this?
Oh god. Please Hollywood studios I know what your thinking and you don’t wanna do it, you don’t wanna go down that road there ya see, Sometimes, dead is better.