Overture Films just announced the official release date for Let Me In, which is now set to hit on October 1st, 2010, making it out in time to cash in on that Halloween buck. The remake of one of the best films of the last decade is shooting right now in New Mexico under the direction of Matt Reeves.
They also sent over this lengthy synopsis-
An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield).
Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.
When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.
The winters get that bitter in New Mexico? You learn something every day.
It’s also very interesting to see that they’re trying to hide the vampire aspect of the story, at least for now. We’ll see what they do when the posters and trailers start hitting. Keep an eye here for much more on this film.
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This will blow.
The fact that Richard Jenkins has been cast as the little girl's father gives me great hope, for some reason. Seems like almost perfect casting to me, and boy, I love me some RJenk.
It's telling that the synopsis point blank says the vampire is a girl. I guess the ambiguity of the original won't fly in the American remake.
@Josh Can you really imagine American studios and distributors being okay with the way the sexual ambiguity was revealed in the original?
was it that ambiguous in the original? I thought it was pretty obvious she was a girl.
Maybe I'm just blind, but I watched it again last night at home and it always seemed to me that her "I'm not a girl" comments just meant that she was a vampire and therefore not really human and therefore not really a "girl" in the proper sense. Could also be a reference to her age (girl vs. old ass woman).
Is New Mexico known for it's bitter, snowy winters? Chenzzo must have blinked when the pelvic scar was revealed. "She's" a boy, actually. Well, used to be.
New Mexico gets damnably cold, speaking from experience. It's not the icy grip of Michigan or anything, but it snows semi-regularly.
@chenzzo: Eli is an eunuch. The reveal in the movie is a little more graceful than in the book, which plays up the creepy sexual aspect of that and goes into how Eli was "created".
Didn't they sort of indicate that the girl's caregiver in the original wasn't actually her father? I thought I remembered talk of creepy undertones of him being a pedophile or something….
Can anybody tell me what is written at the bottom of the poster? Seriously, who uses a white font on a snowy background??
I always saw it as Eli's caregiver (I forget his name now) was basically a grown-up version of Oskar. Met her when he was a child and fell in love with her, standing beside her until he was unable to do it anymore. It's why the ending is so bleak because you've just got through seeing exactly what Oskar is in for.
Like how they've hidden a big red "V" in the M in "Me". That deserves a golf clap. @#12: totally the reading I got. Oskar is doomed to repeat the cycle. Eli looks out for and cares about him now, but will he be dropped down the side of a building once he's all gross and grown up and old and of no use anymore? But hey, at least he wasn't drowned as a child!
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I hope they leave the eunuch detail out of the movie. It wasn't really played up in the original film either, just the book.
The movie made much more sense to me w/o any extra sexual ambiguity
northern new mexico is quite cold in the winter, and snows from october through march, the same with northern arizona and northern california. do you not live in america/have access to wikipedia to clarify these things for yourself, of has chud secretly been farmed out to india?
The better question is- who the fuck cares? It's New Mexico.
In the book, and the movie, Eli is a boy who has had his junk removed. That's what that startling shot of scarred genitalia is all about. In the book it is revaled that his privates were removed at the time of his creation by the sadistic vampire who doubled as the lord of Eli's small town. Additionally, the movie somewhat changes the role of the "father,"Hakan, from the book. In the film his role is made apparent, but his history is vague and secret. It's made clear that whatever he might be doesn't matter, the real matter of importance is the relationship between Oskar and Eli (who's sexuality is left vague even with the reveal of the resulitng scars from the missing penis (which could feasibly be a botched attempt at female castration or a result of being a vampire)) In the book, Hakan is a pedophile. He's in love witrh Eli and is obssessed in a sick way with her/him. It becomes apparent from the beginning that Hakan is inept at what he does and is as diseased as they come. At one point, in a truly repulsive scene, he solicits sex at a library from a young male prostitute. There are a great many more differences between the book and the film, for instance Oskar's piss ball, his cleptomania and the fight between Oskar and the bullies is far more extensive, but each is uniquely its own animal and I feel that any fan of the film should read the book. It provides a much deeper look at the characters represented on screen and actually enhances one's enjoyment of the film.
If you think the naked scene should be left out of the movie you're retarded. This is what makes the entire point of movie. I like the movie much more than the book because I think that they're trying to make you think … she's not a girl she's a vampire… and think… the caregiver guy is a pervert pedophile… and then at the end of the movie when you see the vag scar… and see them running away together… you realize oskar is doomed to become the caregiver.. this changes the mood of the ending from almost cute to incredibly dark. I really think they took the movie and made it their own and that it was going for something different then the book.
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