Published at 9:20 AM on July 1, 2009

By Angela Pham

Let the Right One In American Remake Planned For 2010

Before the critical favorite Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In was even released last year, a director was already contemplating creating an American version. That director, Matt Reeves of Cloverfield fame, has already completed a second draft of his script, and the film, to be titled Let Me In, is already set for a fall 2010 release.

Reeves knows what you're thinking, though. "There's definitely people who have a real bull's-eye on the film," he told The Los Angeles Times, "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."


Still think it's too soon? That won't stop Reeves, who said he felt drawn to the story based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's dark novel, Låt den rätte komma in, about a young boy who befriends a young girl whom he later realizes to be a vampire.

The movie's cast has not been determined yet, though the casting director who worked on The Sixth Sense is helming the job, and a filming location hasn't been set, either. One thing is for sure: Reeves says he isn't going to Twilight-ify the story. Phew.

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