He may have been acting pratically since he was a foetus, but it’s only in the last couple of years that Anton Yelchin’s career has really taken off, thanks in large part to last year’s Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation.
Only yesterday we reported that he’ll be voicing a little blue man in The Smurfs movie, and now it looks like he’s going to take on leading man status in the remake of Fright Night.
THR reports that Yelchin in talks for the reboot, which Dreamworks is fast-tracking with Craig GIllespie (Lars and the Real Girl) at the helm. The original 1985 Fright Night is about horror movie fan Charley Brewster (to be played by Yelchin in the do-over), who becomes convinced that his next door neighbour is a vampire. While he has trouble getting people to believe him, he enlists the help of veteran vampire movie star Peter Vincent to help him, who soon comes to realise that maybe Charley has a point.
Yelchin is a talented guy, and the THR article mentions that Dreamworks is thinking Fright Night in the same way it did Disturbia, as a modestly budgeted genre offering, which can be used as a star vehicle for a major up and comer (in Disturbia’s case, Shia Labeouf).