Why? "Pet Sematary" is a damn scary Stephen King adaptation. The Maine writer was on his game back in 1983 when the book was first published, and the 1989 movie directed by Mary Stuart was actually quite good. It was creepy, it captured the tone of the novel and it told a good story.
Now there's going to be a remake. It's in the early stages still, but the word today is that "1408" screenwriter (another King adaptation) Matthew Greenberg is handling the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra") will produce for Paramount. Interestingly -- I hadn't known this -- a remake was previously planned with a script from the "Face/Off" writers that George Clooney was interested in. Weird.
That noise you hear is me sighing. It's not impossible that the remake will be good. Perhaps it will even eclipse the original. As MTV Splash Page editor Rick Marshall just (correctly) pointed out to me, John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" far outweighs the original. I think it's just a general exhaustion over Hollywood's excessive focus these days on rehashing everything.
Sure I'm looking forward to more "Police Academy." More "Tron." "Spider-Man." "Superman." Hell, even "American Pie" (sort of). But when does it become too much? When we're reporting every day of another one? Because that's where we're at right now. Some days, it's more than one.
There. Rant over. I want to hear what you think. Has it gotten to be too much? And if it has, what do you suggest be done about it?
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