John Lithgow is playing Jud Crandall, a character made iconic by Fred Gwynne in Mary Lambert’s 1989 adaptation of Pet Sematary.
In addition to Lithgow, 2019’s Pet Sematary also stars Jason Clarke as Louis Creed and Amy Seimetz as his wife Rachel.
In the photo, Lithgow sports a full beard, something that instantly differentiates his iteration of Jud.
Our desire was to tell a really grounded, character driven and psychologically horrific version of Pet Sematary, which in my belief, is the scariest book that King ever wrote.”