At EW the names of the three young protagonists of Pet Sematary, the new film adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel of the same name (1983) and of which the following were shooting started for the past few days. Pictured above are Jeté Laurence (10) who will play Ellie while Hugo and Lucas Lavoie, the three-year-old twins, will play little brother Gage.
Produced by Steven Schneider, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, Pet Sematary features Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer (the directors of Starry Eyes) and will debut in U.S. theaters on April 5, 2019.
Plot of Pet Sematary: Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) leaves Boston and moves to Maine with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and two young children, Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (Hugo and Lucas Lavoie). Near his new home, Louis discovers a mysterious cemetery hidden in the forest, and after a tragedy, the family man turns to his strange neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a series of dangerous and disturbing events that will lead to a tragic and untenable situation.
In the cast: Jason Clarke (The Widow Winchester), Amy Seimetz (Alien: Covenant, The Killing, Stranger Things), John Lithgow (Twilight Zone, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Interstellar), Jeté Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, and Lucas Lavoie.
Jeff Buhler and David Kajganich handled the screenplay for Pet Sematary.
In 1989 Mary Lambert directed Living cemetery, the extraordinary film adaptation of Stephen King's novel. The director is also the author of the sequel, Living Cemetery 2 (1992).
