For quite a long time now there’s been talk of remaking Pet Sematary. However rather like the plot, the idea keeps dying and coming back to life. Now it’s been revived once more with the news that director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later, Intruders) is in talks to direct, according to Variety.
The first reports that a remake was in the works came in 2004, when Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (Face/Off) were attached to write the script. The idea resurfaced again in 2011 with a script from Matt Greenberg. The latest version sees Greenberg co-writing with David Kajganich.
The 1989 film, based on Stephen King’s novel, follows a family who moves in next to a cemetery, which they discover has a creepy past and seems to have the power to raise things from the dead – although they don’t come back quite like they were before.
There’s no news on when they hope to shoot this new version.