Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, has been updating the L.A. Times about the status of his remake of the Swedish horror movie, Let The Right One In. Apparently the movie will be retitled Let Me In, which is a more correct translation of the name of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s original novel.
Reeves has now finished a second draft of the script, which he revealed in set in Reagan-era Colorado, which will mean he can keep the original’s snowy locales.
The director seems keen to ensure fans of the original (it’s beloved by many, currently sitting amongst IMDB’s to 250 movies) that he loves Let The Right One In just as much as they do. “I was just hooked,” Reeves said. “I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.”
Reeves added, “There’s definitely people who have a real bull’s-eye on the film, 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.”
He currently working with a casting director and has promised this won’t be turned into a Twilight style romance, despite the fact the original is about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.