Pet Sematary 1989 director outlines her unproduced Elle-centric sequel

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

It was just earlier today that we passed along word that PET SEMATARY remake producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has been teasing a possible prequel to Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer's upcoming remake of Stephen King's scariest novel, and now we have the original 1989 adaptations director Mary Lambert laying out what she really wanted PET SEMATARY TWO to be about. Check out her pitch below.

What I really would like to do would be Ellie coming back as a young woman to Maine with her cat to find out what happened to her parents. She’s in Chicago at the end of the original movie. I’m pretty sure her grandparents wouldn’t have sent her back to live alone in that house after all that had happened, so I would just take the point of view that Ellie grew up in Chicago but what happened to her parents was not discussed very much. I would have jumped ahead to have her be a young woman. I would have her go back to Maine with her cat. Actually, I have a whole idea about feral cats because I love cats so much. The idea that there’s a feral cat community there that eventually takes her to find her father. That’s one thing I would like to do but it probably won’t happen because the remake doesn’t go there. It wouldn’t be a good sequel for the remake. It would be a good sequel for the original.

Sounds like it could have been a solid follow-up to me. I'm just not sure about The idea about that feral cat community that eventually leads Elle her to find her father Louis Creed, wherever the hell he's been. Anyhow, the PET SEMATARY TWO we got followed Edward Furlong as 

A young boy named Jeff Matthews who moves back to his hometown with his father, Chase, when his mother, Renee, dies. Jeff grows friendly with Drew Gilbert at school, who tells him about the Indian burial grounds that bring people and animals back to life, which led to the deaths of the Creed family who used to live in town. Desperately missing his mom, Jeff ignores warnings and buries her corpse, only to have her return in deadly zombie form.

In addition to the above-mentioned Edward Furlong, Mary Lambert's PET SEMATARY TWO starred Anthony Edwards, Jared Rushton, Jason McGuire, Darlanne Fluegel, Lisa Waltz, Sarah Trigger, and Clancy Brown as Gus Gilbert. Richard Outten wrote the screenplay which Ralph Singleton produced.