An October 1, 2010 release date has been announced for Let Me In, the Matt Reeves-directed Let Me In, the anticipated remake of the classic vampire film Let The Right One In.
The announcement from Overture Films arrived along with the news that the film is currently shooting in New Mexico. Let Me In stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Chloe Moretz (500 Days of Summe") and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a teased 12 year-old loner with dreams of taking vengeance on his cruel classmates. The only person he connects with is Abby (Moretz), Owen's neighbor, who happens to be a vampire.
The remake has been kept under wraps for the most part, but given the shooting location, it's unlikely that the original film's snowy setting will be duplicated. Unless you trust the poster, that is:
Overture's full 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.
