Cloverfield director Matt Reeves let The Los Angeles Times in on a few more details about his upcoming American remake of Tomas Alfredson's great and highly acclaimed Swedish horror film "Let the Right One In".Reeves tells the paper he's completed a second script draft for the project which moves the action to early 80's Colorado.
Locations will soon be scouted to match the original's snowy/icy setting.
The US version is officially being called "Let Me In," which is closer to the English translation of the title of John Ajvide Lindqvist's original book on which both films are based.
The 2008 original centered around Oscar, an overlooked and bullied young boy who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Reeves says "I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror."
Reeves also says there's no plans to increase the age of the lead stars in order to cash in on a Twilight-style human/vampire teen romance angle.
Thank goodness there's too much Twilighting going on in the industry as it is at the moment.
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