A new adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is coming to terrify us all, with a new trailer having been released to show us what we’re all in for. Especially, the big change between the original novel and the upcoming film. In the original, three-year-old Gage Creed is the one killed by a truck and resurrects after being buried in a supernatural place, but in the newest movie it is going to be his older sister Ellie who is the unfortunate one.
Co-director Dennis Widmyer explains the change:
“That twist was in the script when we came on board, and straight away you could see that it was one of the smartest things in the script. It was new and fresh but also absolutely kept the essence of the novel. One of the things we liked about the novel is that it’s always the character of Ellie who is asking about these things. She’s asking about her cat dying one day and asking all these big questions. So, it felt right for it to be her, to echo these questions to her Dad, to resolve these earlier conversations that we’ve had. It felt like a nice way to connect that theme.”
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura also added [in references to the changes]:
“I’ve been lucky enough to have worked on something like 80 different book or graphic novel [adaptations]. And I think the truth of any success is that if you treat it literally you get in trouble because it feels very static and stale. But if you make too many changes then you’ve lost the essence of what it is. This treads the perfect line. It is about embracing what the book is trying to say, and not trying to change its tone, its rhythm, and its perspective, while also evolving things forward.”
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Check out the trailer and let us know what you think! Pet Sematary hits theaters April 5th.
Source: CB
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