Posted 07.28.10 by Ryan After finding success with Cloverfield, director Matt Reeves is directing a remake of the critically acclaimed Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In. Reeves, who's a fan of the original, wanted to expose the story to a larger audience with his version, Let Me In. "It's a very Scandinavian film," Reeves told MTV. He believes that the reason some Americans didn't care for the original is because "the relationships in Let the Right One In likely feel foreign and maybe keep you from identifying as much with those characters."
That doesn't mean that Reeves plans to wildly differ from the Swedish original, even though the movie is set in the U.S. It still takes place in the 1980s, in an apartment building where a lonely 12-year-old (Kodi Smit-McPhee) befriends the girl who moves in next door (Chloe Moretz) and just happens to be a vampire. Reeves says that the time period is a critical thematic element in the remake.
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