LET ME IN - teaser posters
January 12th 2010 21:58
Of course the real reason the remake has been made is because executive producers smelled a potential cash cow after the Swedish version received enormous critical acclaim and did great international box office ... and Joe Average American doesn't like having to read subtitles.
The title Let Me In does have a concise directness to it I’ll admit. The real question is whether director Reeves, who apparently penned the screenplay, will follow the brilliant novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist more closely than Swedish director Tomas Alfredson. As much as I love the original movie adaptation, I’m secretly hoping Reeves will indulge the novel’s darker aspects, and in particular include the character subplot of teenager Tommy which was jettisoned from Lindqvist’s own screenplay.
The lead characters names have been changed. Eli has become Abby (played by established child star Chloe Moretz) and Oskar has become Owen (played by young Australian rising star Kodi Smit-McPhee, whom co-stars in the hotly-anticipated apocalyptic drama The Road). Richard Jenkins plays The Father (which suggests that Reeves has made a substantial alteration from the novel’s darkest character element). Only the adult character of Virginia apparently remains the same (according to imdb.com’s cast list, which doesn’t include the character Tommy, but then he may have had his name changed).
Chances are this will be a PG-13 movie in the States. In fact I’d put a wager on it. I can’t see any American producers allowing the novel to be filmed in its entirety as it’s too horrific and nightmarish for mainstream audiences. Whether it will have any of the poetry and atmosphere of the Swedish original is another story entirely. There’s even a significant character called The Policeman (played by Elias Koteas) in Reeves’ version, yet the police were kept at reach in the novel and barely made an appearance in the original movie.
The promotional posters, the last teaser of which actually includes cast listing, are pretty cool though.
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