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‘It’ director wants to reboot another Stephen King horror classic
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A scene from the 1989 'Pet Sematary'. (YouTube Movies/File)
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he big-screen adaptation of “It” has dominated the box office for the past weeks, and director Andy Muschietti believes another reboot of one of Stephen King’s horror classics can achieve the same success.
The 44-year-old film expert expressed his desire to direct “Pet Sematary,” which tells the story of an ancient Indian burial ground with the ability to bring the dead back to life.
“My affection for ‘Pet Sematary’ will go on until I die,” Muschietti admitted to Entertainment Weekly. “I will always dream about the possibility of making a movie.”
The harrowing novel was met with positive reviews when it was released in 1983, and was initially given the movie treatment in 1989.
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Meanwhile, Andy’s sister and “It” co-producer Barbara Muschietti share the same excitement when describing a possible reboot of the classic novel-turned-film.
“I will always dream about the possibility of making a movie…I really hope we can do it. But if we do it, we have to do it justice, like we did with ‘It,’” she told the news outlet. “The versions we read in the past years, the scripts we’ve read, have not been, in our opinion, representative of the book.”
Currently, Paramount Pictures still holds the film rights to the property, but Warner Bros. could push for a deal if a strong script could be written in the coming months.
This article appeared on the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
