With the cast now starting to flesh out for the upcoming Pet Sematary remake, the new take on Stephen King’s classic tale is close to landing its female lead.

As per Variety, Amy Seimetz is currently in talks to play the female lead of the movie; presumably the Rachel Creed role. Seimetz is likely best known to genre fans for Upstream Colour, The Sacrament, A Horrible Way to Die and Alien: Covenant.

Already on board for this new adaptation of Pet Sematary are Jason Clarke as Louis Creed and John Lithgow as Jud Grandall.

For not familiar with Pet Sematary, the Stephen King-penned tale began life back in ’83, with the story focussing on an eerie pet cemetery – which is misspelled as sematary – behind the new home purchased by the Creed family. Rumour has it, any animals buried in said cemetery will come back to life. The tale doesn’t stop there though, for things don’t go exactly to plan when the hallowed ground is used to reanimate humans…

King’s work would famously be adapted for the big screen in 1989 by director Mary Lambert – itself in turn followed by a 1993 sequel. Ever since 2010, there’s been regular chatter of a remake happening, and at one point we even had the brilliant Guillermo del Toro throwing his hat in the ring to tackle the redo. Ultimately, del Toro’s uber-busy schedule didn’t allow for anything further to happen on that front, but we are now still getting a new take on this tale.

Where this latest take on an old favourite is concerned, the duo of Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch are sharing directing duties, with the pair also having worked on the screenplay with Jeff Buhler.

Pet Sematary is currently set for an April 5th, 2019 release.