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Some late updates

First, Tomas Alfredson will direct his first English language film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy".

Second, Aussie child actor Kodi Smit-Mcphee looks like the frontrunner to play Oskar/Owen in Matt Reeves' remake.

Related: Viggo Mortensen says Kodi Smit-McPhee is the next Marlon Brando

Fearnet's chat with Hammer chief Simon Oakes

re LTROI:

You've got Wake Wood coming in addition to The Resident. Can you talk about the other films you have in development?

We start production this year on Let the Right One In, the re-make of the Swedish vampire movie. We saw that a couple of years ago, we thought it was amazing and we knew that it would be critically acclaimed, but get a small audience for obvious reasons, because of the fact that it's subtitled. So Matt Reeves came on board from Cloverfield. We're doing quite a faithful adaptation of it, but we're fleshing it out a little bit. We're not going to change it massively, just make it very accessible to a wider audience. That will film this year. Our slate is just beginning to settle for next year. We have The Woman in Black, which is a famous novella by Susan Hill, which is also sort of our first, if you like, traditional ghost story; which fits into the walking dead genre. Then we have a film called The Quiet Ones, which is about a group of scientists in Cambridge, a true story about scientists in Cambridge, who instead of doing what they should be doing and working on DNA, decide on creating a poltergeist. That's being written by Oren Moverman. So those are two pictures for next year, and there's probably a third that we are not sure about the timing of yet. So we intend to be very active in development, we want to be active on the net. We really need to get our act together about how we work on digital. The reason we did that little thing called Beyond the Rave, was that we felt there was an audience of sixteen- to twenty-five-year-olds who never heard of Hammer. But the social networking sites was a place to show them who and what Hammer was in the past and what it could be in the future.

That's our plan. And, basically, to be frank with you – having conversations with people like you guys so that you know what we're up to, and there can be talking and blogging. You know the horror community better than anybody in the States. I want to understand it. And I want to hear from people like you how you think we're going about our business.

The original Let the Right One In is, as you said, adored by genre fans and critics. Can you talk about what you think Matt will bring to his take on it?

I think the original is fascinating in its exposition, but at the same time there is a doggerel element to it in terms of the mood and setting. So I think it takes it out into a more accessible setting. I think perhaps there is a little more characterization in terms of the two central characters. To be perfectly frank with you, this is making an astonishing story – which however hard you might try or I might try to get people to go see the original, they're never going to do it – more accessible to a much larger audience. I think perhaps, again, the roughness of the original is great – and when I talk about faithful, I don't want to put words in Matt's mouth, because he is the creative filmmaker here, and we very much protect that with our directors – but I think it'll just have perhaps a little sheen to it that makes it a little more accessible I think. But again, I don't want to tempt faith. It's a relatively faithful adaptation. There are a number of things that we're doing which I don't want to give away, which I think open it out a little bit more, and make it a little bit more thrilling. But at the same time we're not gonna mess around by having crazy effects and stuff like that. I mean, one of my favorite scenes in the original is when she goes outside, and the camera pans back on a dolly and you see her scampering up the side of the building. That's just genius. [Laughs.] I love that.

Since Matt made the Godzilla film more accessible to many people with Cloverfield, he seems to be a good choice to adapt this material.

I think that's right. And he's one of the world's great enthusiasts, which is fantastic.

Production Weekly has more details

“LET ME IN"
(aka "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN")
Feature Film 10-02-08

EXCLUSIVE MEDIA GROUP / HAMMER FILMS 9348 Civic Center Dr., Mezzanine Beverly Hills, CA 90210

STATUS - May 2009 LOCATION - Canada
PRODUCER: Sean Furst - Guy East - Nigel Sinclair - Alex Brunner - Tobin Armbrust - John Ptak - Philip Elway - Fredrik Malmberg -Simon Oakes
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Matt Reeves
OVERTURE FILMS 9242 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 200 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 424-204-4000 - 212-905-4200

Owen and Abby. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Owen is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Abby is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood.

Here's the article in PDF format.

New LA Times article on Matt Reeves and "Let Me In"

After having directed the "Godzilla"-for-the-Twitter-generation known as "Cloverfield," Matt Reeves was in meetings in early 2008 trying to set up a small drama he had written. An executive at Overture Films asked him to take a look at a then-unreleased Swedish horror film, "Let the Right One In," a hauntingly touching film about a lonely 12-year-old boy who realizes the kind girl who moved in next door is a vampire.
...

He recently finished a second draft of the script, currently set in Reagan-era Colorado, and is scouting locations, looking to maintain the original story's chilly, snow-swept environs. The film is scheduled for a fall 2010 theatrical release.

Reeves is also working with casting director Avy Kaufman -- who previously found kids for "The Sixth Sense" and "The Ice Storm" -- to find the two leads, which Reeves vows will not be aged-up to make the film more of a smoldering "Twilight"-style romance.

"There's definitely people who have a real bull's-eye on the film," Reeves said, "and I can understand because of people's' love of the [original] film that there's this cynicism that I'll come in and trash it, when in fact I have nothing but respect for the film. I'm so drawn to it for personal and not mercenary reasons, my feeling about it is if I didn't feel a personal connection and feel it could be its own film, I wouldn't be doing it. I hope people give us a chance."

Read the whole thing.

Mediaspace1's LTROI youtube channel has been suspended

that's a shame.

What's wrong with IMDB's voting system

for the Let the Right One In movie? My vote won't count. Now another person has complained about the same thing.