Here's the US poster and an interesting views
from
http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/let-me-in/News! And not all of it bad!
In my original review for last year’s almost unendurably excellent Swedish vampire children movie, Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In), I concluded with a chilling look to the future:
As is often the case with foreign horror movies (and Let the Right One In is indeed a horror movie, whatever else it may be), an American remake is in the works and is due to be released in 2010. I’m betting they up the age of Oskar and Eli to their late teens and treat vampires in the Blade/Underworld manner, thereby ruining it. Oh, who am I kidding; they’ll ruin it no matter what they do. That’s what they do, now. They ruin things. Still, if it leads some intrigued viewers to check out the original, it may well be worth it in the end.
It turns out that my fears might have been misplaced, and there are a number of reasons for this.
First, Let Me In (as it’s now called) isn’t actually a remake. It is instead a readapation from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s original 2004 novel, and one that the director had apparently intended to make anyway even apart from the Swedish version. That’s something.It’s also the case that they haven’t committed the seemingly inevitable crime of upping the children’s ages to the late teens to make things more sexy.
They really are just kids, and I’m glad they’ll be kept that way.
What’s more, the kids themselves are to be portrayed by two young actors who have recently demonstrated considerable talent and potential. The role of Eli (now Abby) will be played by Chloe Moretz, who at the age of 13 already has four large-scale movies in production, and, if advance reports may be trusted, will likely destroy the entire world with her work as the adorable killing-machine Hit-Girl in the upcoming adaptation of the Millar/Romita comic series, Kick-Ass. Oskar (now Owen), will be played by the lesser-known Kodi Smit-McPhee, a 13-year-old Australian boy who will next be seen as The Boy in the hotly-anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. When Viggo Mortensen says that someone is one of the most gifted actors he’s ever worked with, it might be worth listening to him. It bodes well for Let Me In, anyway.
Well....... still.....
