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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Comment by Jason King
Sydney Table
Salty Popcorn
Total Randomness
Hope it's good - and I have to say that "Let the Right One In" has a better ring to it
Comment by The Master
Comment by Anonymous
Favorite Poster, I Must Say Wuld Be The Hands.
Very Affective
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Matheson's novel is brilliant, indeed. I couldn't bring myself to watch the Will Smith version, it just looked wrong, wrong, wrong. The Omega Man has moments, but is very dated. I've been meaning to watch The Last Man on Earth, but haven't yet. It's a real shame Ridley Scott didn't get to do it, as he was planning to in the 90s. The ending of the novel is so powerful, but for Hollywood to allow that ending would need some serious convincing of clueless executive producers.
Most movie adaptations of novels fail to do the book justice, with the exception of say American Psycho, which I feel captured the inherent insanity of Patrick Bateman more successfully than the novel. For example Perfume. What a major disappointment! But then to do that novel justice would've meant a seriously disturbed, indulgent, subversive and explicit sub-titled movie that would only appeal to a cult audience.
Comment by The Master
lol I'm a Political Activist my friend diatribes goes with the Territory. If you think that was harsh you should see some of my debates. Yes I have a huge horror movie collection, I have both the old Black and White silent movies to the more modern movies of today including after dark horror fest. A friend of mine sends me her DVDs all the way from Pennsylvania so I had the Last Man on Earth and saw it. I had originally seen The Omega Man first and then I am Legend, the Vincent Price movie I saw last and loved that one above the other two. I don't hate the movies, I loved them very much and if they had said "loosely based on Richard Matheson's work" or perhaps "a derivative work" rather than saying it was based on his Novel leading you to believe it will be faithful, to the original work, I would have not been so peeved when I read the book and found that what I saw before was far from accurate. That's why when I hear about a Movie based on a Book, I prefer to see the movie first then if I like it read the book because chances are the Book will be better. It's like you said in the Zombieland article "consistency" in Comedies consistency doesn't really matter to me but in a serious work I absolutely insist on it and I have seen far too many movies that lack it. If an Author insists on consistency in his Book why then not equally insist it on a Movie? It's rather annoying. But anyways.........this movie at least looks promising but it's still sounds like it will be different than the book, so I will see this movie first, then the original with subtitles and finally, I shall read the Book. As always.............
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
I have several favourite novels that have yet to be adapted to the screen, and I'm sure they all will eventually, and none of them will do it successfully ... I wish I had more faith though.
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
I'm still really concerned they are going to bleed all the challenging material out of this...especially that "father" bullshit they seem to have gone with.
Like you Tommy is essential to justifying a remake even worth attempting.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile