The Big Picture We’ve been getting a steady stream of Stephen King adaptations on screen for decades now, and many of them are quite good, but the 2023 releases are highlighting one particular approach to bringing a King classic to life on screen that’s brimming with potential and could be worth mining further — identifying lightly explored corners of King's worlds and fleshing them out.
LINDSEY ANDERSON BEER: I always wanted to be a filmmaker. I was one of those annoying kids who was always just turning in a movie instead of an essay or something for school projects. BEER: But I always loved horror and science fiction, and I just felt like studying something related to science could just be such an interesting backdrop and stuff to mine for my career later.
BEER: Yeah, it's a great question. There was so much about it. I mean, first of all, Pet Sematary was my favorite King book when I was a kid. So that was a little bit of a dream project. But specifically, as a filmmaker, I felt like, even more so than all of King's work, which is often a mish-mash of genres, right? There's a much more human element to it than a lot of horror writers. But Pet Sematary particularly is kind of a backdoor horror movie.
For instance, the end of the book says that Jud is the guardian of the woods, and the book says that Jud's experience with Timmy Baterman is the reason that the evil’s even targeting him as an old man, that we know. So there are so many things like that that aren't explored in films, and that a lot of the fans don't know because they haven't read the book, or haven't read the book for so much time. Sleepy Hollow, same thing.
I thought that that relationship between the two of them is so central to my version of the movie that I wanted to make. And also just giving Native Americans more of a point of view in the movie, just given the history of “mystical Indigenous” in the trope of the cursed land that was associated with the property before.
BEER: Oh, for sure. And I mean, the Timmy Baterman story could be its own full story even if it wasn't an origin story that told more about the founding of Ludlow. And that, to me, I was trying to bridge the intimacy of the Timmy story with the scope of an origin story for Ludlow and not just Jud. To highlight more of your cast, of all the roles in this ensemble, which was the easiest to cast where it was like the right person magically appeared, but then on the other hand, which character was the most difficult to find the perfect fit for?BEER: I just knew I wanted Forrest and I offered it to him so that was very easy to cast.
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