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Over at the incredibly good Stephen King fan site Lilja's Library they got themselves an interview with writer David Kajganich who just happens to have involvement in two remake projects that are in the works. Pet Sematary and IT.
In a nutshell here's what he had to say:
First up, here's what he had to say about Pet Sematary: After I turned in my first draft, Paramount
went through a top-down regime change and I was given a new executive
who had creative ideas I just couldn’t stand behind. They wanted to
appeal to younger audiences, so there was talk of making a teenaged
Ellie the main character, and etc. It was really heartbreaking, but
that’s how the process works sometimes. The studio was gracious enough
to let me out of my contract and the project was dormant at the studio
until very recently.
The current news is that Paramount has restarted the process with a new
producer and writer (Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Matt Greenberg). I wish
I could tell you something about their approach, or how it’s going, but
I’m entirely out of the loop now.
Little bit better news about the IT redo: I
think the biggest difference is that we’re working with about
two-thirds the onscreen time they had for the miniseries. That sounds
dire, I know, but it doesn’t necessarily mean two-thirds the amount of
story. I’m finding as many ways as I can to make certain scenes
redundant by deepening and doubling others. To me, this is an
interesting process because it has the effect of thematically
intensifying the whole, but it can lead to dramatic surprises. Certain
scenes I thought would be crucial to the coherence of the whole ended
up cut, while other scenes, which were somewhat cursory in the book,
ended up being pivotal in the script. I know I’m being vague, but
there’s not a lot I can tell you at this point about the specifics,
since we’re still very much in development on it. I’ll just say for now
that we’re really swinging for the fences.
If you want to read the entire interview, which I whole heartedly urge you to do, then just CLICK HERE and go and enjoy.
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