Oscar-nominated actor John Lithgow will play Jud Crandall in Paramount’s remake of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. In the late ’70s, King briefly taught classes at the University of Maine and during that time moved his family into a house situated along a busy stretch of highway. After a truck ran over the family cat, and his son Owen suffered his own close call, King felt compelled to write Pet Sematary, one of his most unrelentingly dark novels.
Published in 1983, Pet Sematary proved to be another huge seller for King (even though he claimed he himself found the book too bleak). The novel later became a film starring Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, a young doctor ...
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