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Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro would love to make a Stephen King movie, and he has revealed which book he will adapt. In an interview with The Kingcast, del Toro explained that he “would have killed” to adapt Pet Semetary, the novel King considers one of his scariest.
“You know the novel that I would have killed to adapt it, and I know that there are two versions, and I still think that in a disturbed universe, I can do it again one day, it’s Pet Sematary”, a he declared. “Because he not only has the best final lines, but he scared me when I was a young man. As a father I now understand it better than I ever would and it scares me. A hundred times more.
After the release of the original Stephen King novel in 1983, King sold the rights to the film to legendary horror director George A. Romero. But when Romero was forced to step down due to a scheduling conflict, Paramount went ahead and made Pet Sematist starring director Mary Lambert in 1989, with a screenplay written by King himself.
Pet Sematist was adapted again in 2019 Рthis time by directors Kevin K̦lsch and Dennis Widmyer, with a screenplay written by Jeff Buhler and Matt Greenberg.
Del Toro is certainly not the first filmmaker to want to adapt Pet Sematary. In 2017, Andy and Barbara Muschietti revealed that they wanted to remake the Stephen King classic.
“We are big fans of Pet Sematary,†said Andy Toronto sun. “If we can get our hands on it and do the Pet Sematary that we want to do, that’s going to be something. Maybe someday.”
“We’ll see who gets there first,” added her sister and filming partner Barbara Muschietti. “But it’s the first Stephen King book we’ve read, and it’s something that’s been a great love, because it is perhaps King’s most personal book. You can imagine his young family. What will you do to be able to keep your family? How far would you go? I really hope we can do it. But if we do, we have to do it justice, as we did with IT. The versions that we have read in the last few years, the scripts that we have read, have not, in our opinion, been representative of the book.
Ultimately, the 2019 Pet Sematary remake went in a different direction. And that didn’t impress critics – the film currently holds a 57% rating on Rotten tomatoes with an audience score of only 32%.
Would Guillermo del Toro’s version have held up better? Sadly, we’ll never know. But with more Stephen King remakes than ever, we may find out one day.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment reporter and film critic for IGN. You can follow it on Twitter.
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