Pet Sematary Remake

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One year from now. It needs to have more violence than the first, even though I love the first movie. Also, I want to see the Wendigo. Maybe have some Native American actors in it who a scared out of their brains, maybe make Jud's character Native American or some weird lady in the forest. Also have some occult stuff and a witch or something. The problem( and it's not a problem but I'm a softy and don't like the 'good-guys' in a movie dying) in my opinion is that there is no hope in the first movie, I am left feeling sad knowing the most of the family dies. Maybe they can change this aspect from the first movie.
 
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Nah Doc, I think Clarke is a done deal.

I wanted someone younger because one of the many things I liked about the story is that it's about young parents adjusting to parenthood, especially Louis' connection to Gage.

That being said, I gotta trust that the directors know what they're doing (I'm not in the film-making business, after all).
 
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Grant87 said:
While reading the novel recently, I pictured Scott Wilson as Jud. He played Herschel on The Walking Dead. I thought he would have been a great fit.
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I can picture it. He'd have to get rid of his southern accent, though. I've read the book many times and I didn't have an actor in mind, exactly, but I can see Jud clearly.
 
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Apart from physical features, I'd nominate someone like Ian McKellan or Tom Wilkinson. Jud is 83 in the novel and he's a central figure to the story. One might say he's the driving force behind all the events in the book. Pascow doesn't really cause anything to happen but he is the first evidence Louis has that there is something after death; he's a guide, a guardian. Jud puts everything in motion. All that said to say Jud should be played by a theater actor or someone who can give this character weight and strength. Lithgow certainly can offer that, I think. He's played wimpy guys, in the past, but he's played every other archetype under the sun.
 
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Doc Creed said:
Apart from physical features, I'd nominate someone like Ian McKellan or Tom Wilkinson. Jud is 83 in the novel and he's a central figure to the story. One might say he's the driving force behind all the events in the book. Pascow doesn't really cause anything to happen but he is the first evidence Louis has that there is something after death; he's a guide, a guardian. Jud puts everything in motion. All that said to say Jud should be played by a theater actor or someone who can give this character weight and strength. Lithgow certainly can offer that, I think. He's played wimpy guys, in the past, but he's played every other archetype under the sun.
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That would be Patrick Stewart.

His Shakespeare performances are sublime.

And he gave one of the best Star Trek Characters ever his weight and strenght
 
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The latest on the film:

‘Pet Sematary’ Re-Adaptation Promises to Be One of the Scariest Stephen King Films Ever - Dark Universe: Horror Database

I always felt that sense of camp they talk about is in a lot of the films SK wrote the screenplay for himself. Creepshow, Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Sleepwalkers all have over-the-top moments. Since these are all from different directors and Maximum Overdrive by himself, it must be in the scripts already and very much intended. It's not so much in the tv-movies and mini-series he wrote - Golden Years, The Stand, Rose Red, Storm of the Century, The Shining remake and Desperation are all fairly straight - but in Kingdom Hospital you have it again.

I remember at the end of Pet Sematary when Louis kisses his dead wife who's returned, the audience in the theatre cheered laughingly, where as in the book it's scary.
There is clearly a difference in how he approaches the same material on the page or on the screen. It seems for the screen he wants it to be more over-the-top to the point of camp, where as in a book he tries to scare you for real. There is a lot of humor in the books too, but not so much in the big, scary moments.

I always feel the last part of the original film of Pet Sematary when Gage is returning is great, it's almost like a dream. Like Louis only dreams Gage is coming back, but it's happening for real. It's been a while since I saw it last, and somehow the blu-ray is hard to find here, but I seem to recall in the scenes when Gage returns even the house looks different on the inside - I maybe wrong though.
 
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