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Cloverfield Director Attached to Hammer's 'Let the Right One In'
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

By: MrDisgusting

Some "monster" news comes in this evening as CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves will write and direct the vampire tale Let the Right One In for Overture Films and Hammer Films. The project, a remake of Tomas Alfredson's critically acclaimed Swedish film "Lat Den Ratte Komma In" based on a novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, centers on a young boy who befriends a female neighbor who moves to town. Hammer acquired remake rights at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. where the film won the Founders Award for narrative feature. Overture is planning to release the remake next year. Click here for details on the original, which will hit limited theaters October 24th as part of Magnet's 6-shooter series.

Source: Variety

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thedescent08
9:20pm, September 24, 2008

Just another fucking useless remake.....

Blood-Sicles
9:34pm, September 24, 2008

The original was so good! Why re-write it? If they dumb it down for American audiences, they will completely ruin it. The Swedish version was extremely toned down compared to the book.

tszilla
9:45pm, September 24, 2008

Since the '30's horror movies have essentially all been remakes, sequels or ripoffs of other sequels and remakes.Once in a while something original slips through the cracks and if it is any good it gets sequelized, remade or ripped off. It's the Hollywood food chain, it's the circle of life.Who gives a crap, HAMMER IS BACK,BABY!

thedescent08
10:54pm, September 24, 2008

I bet they will make it PG-13 so fans of those vampire romance novels, Twilight, will want to see it.

JahSoldier
1:55am, September 25, 2008

Just embarassing. L�t den r�tte komma in only started making the festival rounds beginning of this year. At this rate foreign films will never even leave the country of origin at all and the US remake will be released simultaneously. Remaking films is one thing but they should let the film at least breathe before doing the dirty.

N3kr0
6:39am, September 25, 2008

weeeeeeeeeeeeee yet another one. =) Love for the art? don't thing so... thank god for the world wide web and the possibility of watching the originals before the remakes, please do, if you're in america. Don't waste your IQ...

Blood-Sicles
1:32pm, September 25, 2008

thedescent08, Lol there is NO WAY this could be a tween Twilight-ish flick and still be based on the same book or movie. No way.

JAYSAW
3:01pm, September 25, 2008

This film was so beautiful. The innocence of it will now be tainted forever!

milkman
1:13am, November 15, 2008

Jaysaw, I compleletely agree. It is a flawless sublime poingant film. Hammer or not - I hope all these fuckers suffer a slow painful death. Has an American director of horror had an original thought lately? Lynch is still far and away the best american director out there- check out Inland Empire.

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