{"id":99916,"date":"2017-10-31T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=99916"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:33:45","slug":"pet-sematary-remake-finally-finds-directors-might-actually-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/pet-sematary-remake-finally-finds-directors-might-actually-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Sematary remake finally finds directors, might actually happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In seasonally appropriate news, Paramount has taken a big step forward with its long-gestating<strong><em> Pet Sematary<\/em><\/strong> remake by picking directors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/pet-sematary-directors-paramount-1202603011\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that Kevin Kolsch and\u00a0Dennis Widmyer have been chosen to bring Stephen King&#8217;s horrifying tale of a family and the titular cursed burial ground back to the big screen. The duo are best known for their excellent indie horror <strong><em>Starry Eyes<\/em><\/strong>, a brutal tale of an actress who will do anything to get ahead in Hollywood. Rich in atmosphere, genuinely creepy and with moments of revolting gore, <strong><em>Starry Eyes<\/em> <\/strong>would seem to make the duo an excellent choice for one of King&#8217;s nastiest stories.<\/p>\n<p>The remake will be written by Jeff Buhler (<strong><em>Midnight Meat Train<\/em><\/strong>) and\u00a0David Kajganich (<strong><em>A Bigger Splash<\/em><\/strong>, upcoming AMC horror series <strong><em>The Terror<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been in on-off development since 2011, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (<strong><em>28 Weeks Later<\/em><\/strong>) attached to direct back in 2013, and <strong><em>IT<\/em><\/strong> director Andy Muschietti has previously expressed his desire to make it. Mike Flanagan also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/sending-stephen-king-a-script-is-nerve-wracking-mike-flanagan-and-trevor-macy-talk-geralds-game\/\">told us <\/a>that it had been one of the King projects on his wishlist.<\/p>\n<p>The massive success of <strong><em>IT<\/em><\/strong> is being cited as the reason why Paramount finally picked up a shovel and headed towards the Micmac burial ground, as everyone and their mum is anxiously checking behind their sofa cushions to see if they&#8217;ve been sitting on the rights to any Stephen King stories.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lambert&#8217;s\u00a0original film is superb and properly frightening (you&#8217;ll never forget Zelda) but there are some elements that could be improved upon, and we&#8217;re going to be cautiously optimistic about this. Good directors, good writers&#8230;now let&#8217;s see who they cast. We&#8217;re rooting for Mark Duplass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest horror news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount brings Starry Eyes duo in to exhume Pet Sematary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":99917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3467],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/petsematary.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}