Monday, January 04, 2010
Michael Allen
Overture Films began production on the Let Me In, which is the American remake of Let the Right One In, as of November 2nd and shooting will finish January 30th in New Mexico. The film has drawn talented actors like Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line) and Cara Buono (The Sopranos), but Let Me In will have to create something extra marvelous in order to outshine the already spectacular Let the Right One In. For those interested in the project an early movie one-sheet and short synopsis are available. Check out a second one-sheet inside and a further cast announcement below.
An official synopsis for Let Me In:
An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer to his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield).
"Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.
When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.
The gifted cast of Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name (Let Me In)."
Release Date: 2010.
Director: Matt Reeves.
Cast: Chloe Moretz, Sasha Barrese, and Richard Jenkins.
A second poster from the film:
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2 comments:
While I am eagerly awaiting the release of this film, I dont believe in pitting them against each other. The book and film were both very good. One had qualities that the other did not. My hope is that Let Me In offers something just as poetic and wonderful as its predecessor.
I am half way through the book now. The film adaptation was actually better than the book but the book gives all the background on the characters. The film trimmmed the fat.
I'll be seeing the remake just to write a comparison review with Let the Right One In.
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