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IT - Official Teaser Trailer_ by [Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly Sep 19, 2017 6:19 PM UTC IT - Official Teaser Trailer by [Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly Sep 19, 2017 6:19 PM UTC In addition to [developing a sequel](http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/11/stephen-king-it-sequel-details/) to the horror hit, focusing on the adults who return to finish off the shapeshifting entity, director Andy Muschietti and his sister, producer Barbara Muschietti, have another King classic they’d like to adapt. They’d like to breathe new life into _Pet Sematary_. The novel was previously adapted into a 1989 film starring Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby as the young parents who move in next to a busy country road and a woodland burial ground, where the dead don’t rest in peace. The late Fred Gwynne (pictured below) played kindly neighbor Jud Crandall, who knows secrets about those woods that he probably shouldn’t have shared. That movie was a hit that kicked off a resurgence of King adaptations, just as _It_ has now. For the Muschiettis, _Pet Sematary_ would be next on their wish list after wrapping up the tale of Pennywise and his decades-long battle against the kids of the Losers Club. “My affection for _Pet Sematary_ will go on until I die,” Andy Muschietti tells EW. “I will always dream about the possibility of making a movie.” King’s film agency says Paramount Pictures, which released the 1989 film, still holds the film rights to the property. “We’ll see who gets to it first,” Barbara Muschietti says. “But it is the first Stephen King book that we read, and it’s something that has been a great love, because it is possibly 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?” A few efforts have been undertaken over the years to launch a remake, but nothing has come together yet. “I really hope we can do it. But if we do it, we have to do it justice, like we did with _It_,” Barbara Muschietti says. “The versions we read in the past years, the scripts we’ve read, have not been, in our opinion, representative of the book.” Other directors have also expressed interest. > [](https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/654983707355410432) Guillermo Del Toro counts _Pet Sematary_ as a favorite, and in 2015 tweeted that he “would kill to make it on film.” For now, as they await the green light for _It: Chapter Two_, the Muschiettis are moving on to someone else in the King family: the novelist’s son, Joe Hill, and a TV adaptation of the graphic novel _Locke & Key_, which Hill wrote and artist Gabriel Rodriguez illustrated. Hulu has commissioned a pilot, which Andy Muschietti will direct and Barbara will executive produce, with _Lost_ and _Bates Motel_‘s Carlton Cuse as showrunner. The story focuses on three siblings who move into an old home after the death of their father. Within the home, there are mystical keys that unlock other worlds and hidden powers. “It’s a very cool story, and it’s an amazing comic book and family drama, but also a crazy horror mystery and fantasy,” Andy Muschietti says. “There are scoops of everything.” _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/19/pet-sematary-remake-it-director-stephen-king/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://Ew.com) ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] There you go, she's already captain. Thanks [00:03] Billy. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] NO! [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] [00:05] [ NOISE ] Derry's not like any town I've ever been in [00:50] before. People To higher [00:55] disappear six times the national average, [01:05] and that's just grownups, kids are worse. [ MUSIC ] [01:06] Way, way worse. [ MUSIC ] We all float down here. [01:06] [ SOUND ] I just saw something. There was this [01:06] [ MUSIC ] Yeah I [01:12] saw him too. Look, it's all connected by the sewers. [01:12] That's where it lives. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] [01:12] [ NOISE ] If you come with me you will fly too. You'll [01:12] float too, you'll float too, [01:25] you'll float too, you'll [02:08] float too! 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