Cast for 'Let the Right One In' Remake Fills Out
Koteas, Buono and Barrese round out the cast
Overture and Hammer Films have officially announced the cast of Let Me In the English-language remake of Tomas Alfredson's 2008 Swedish-language hit Let the Right One In based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Directed by Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves, the adaptation centers on Owen, an alienated 12-year-old boy played by Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), who befriends Abby, a mysterious young newcomer (Chloe Moretz) in his small New Mexico town and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood.
Rounding out the cast is Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) playing Abby's guardian, Elias Koteas (Shutter Island) as the policeman, Cara Buono ("The Sopranos") as Owen's mother and Sasha Barrese (The Hangover) as Virginia. The filmmakers note that while the new film will pay respect to the original Swedish version, they intend to forge a unique identity for Let Me In, placing it firmly in an American context.
Simon Oakes, President and CEO of Hammer Films, was quoted in today's press release saying, "This project is very personal to Matt as it is to the many passionate fans of the original story. The brilliance of that story deserves to be seen by audiences on a wide scale and we are excited that the pieces are in place to make that a reality."
Principal photography began today in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the film scheduled for a 2010 release in the U.S. by Overture Films. Exclusive Film Distribution is handling worldwide sales and distribution of the film.
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"The brilliance of that story deserves to be seen by audiences on a wide scale…"
Then give the original a wide release. How about we condition the masses to put a little effort into their movie going experience (re: subtitles)? Instead of pandering to them by Americanizing (read bastardizing) everything good that doesn't happen to be in English.
Damn foreigners and their desire to make movies in their own language. How inconsiderate can they possibly be.
how is this story going to work in New Mexico?
Freakin awesome cant wait. I think it will be awesome
@Kevin: I'm with Kevin, this is a joke, first Rec, then this, then The Orphanage. I know many of my fellow Americans may not know how to read but this definitely isn't going to help matters when they can just sit back and say "meh, I'll wait for the English remake." How about getting a little cultured people?
Ah man, don't do it…don't do it. Is there a chance the funding will fall through? Or that an iron blizzard in New Mexico destroys production? Please movie gods – anything. I don't think it's about "culture" or "consideration" (although a little of both would help) but it's that the original leaves nothing that needs to be done better.
This would be like remaking a Kubrick movie – why do it? It's not gonna get better. Fortunately, this movie has almost no chance of being better even with some solid talent behind the lens/dollars.
Fully agree with Kevin. Why can only something 'made in america' have the ability to go "wide scale"? And what brilliance of the original story will be left after they make so many changes to Americanize it?!?
Disappointing. Wide-release the original already and let the whole world in!
Here goes another awesome foreign film ruined by an American remake… God dammit, Hollywood.
While I have no problems in remakes (some are better than the original), I agree with Kevin and Jared. One has to be given the chance to see the original movie in its original language.
And I really hate movies dubbed in different language. Movies should be seen and heard in its original language!
@Jared: It's true though, many of us American's now days don't really read. You hit the nail on the head when you say, "it's not going to help matters, when now American's can just sit back and say I'll wait for the English remake." It frustrates me! This film is going to ruin the original story.
that has to be the most idiotic title i've seen for any version of that film. I'm going to see the original tomoz, i saw it once before and it blew me away, haven't hollywood already destroyed the vampire genre enough with the twilight saga to ruin a perfect swedish film that could blow chunks out of anything hollywood's horror movies have spat out in the past decade? Pointless and uneeded.
Let Me In? Fucking hell, what an awful, awful, AWFUL title.
Are audiences out there really so dumb that they need to have english remakes made for them? Is reading THAT much of a challenge for them? Jesus, the world is going to pot if that is the case. This film has zero chance at being what the original is.
Let Me In will be known for about 1-2 years and then be forgotten like Quarantine
Let The Right One In will be forever regarded as a classic piece of cinema
It may give the incompetent, retarded and downright patronising studios a quick buck but this product of their stupid pandering loins will be discarded like yeserdays news paper.
I can not believe this, I haven't seen the original yet but I fully intend to. Americans have no imagination left is that it, all they can do now is steal movies from over seas.
Remakes are made years and years and yes years after the original, so much so that there is an entirely new audience. I am sick of americans remaking foreign films they never make them better and the ones i have seen they never bring anything new or original to them. Grow some brain cells and find new stories to tell before hollywood is only known as the remake capitol.