Showtime announced it is picking up a
Let the Right One In 10-episode series adaptation after a successful pilot written by
Andrew Hinderaker (
Penny Dreadful) and directed by
Seith Mann (
Homeland). The first season will go into production in New York City in early 2022.
Based on the Swedish novel of the same name written by
John Ajvide Lindqvist in 2004, the
Let the Right One In series was
first announced in 2016 by TNT, which was initially developing the project. The series
moved to Showtime at the beginning of this year, with Oscar-nominated actor
Demián Bichir (
A Better Life),
Mr. Robot alum
Grace Gummer, and
The Princess and the Frog’s Tiana
Anika Noni Rose as part of the cast.
The series announcement also confirms the presence of
Madison Taylor Baez (
Selena: The Series),
Kevin Carroll (Snowfall), Ian Foreman (Merry Wish-Mas), and
Jacob Buster (Colony).
The series centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez), whose lives were changed ten years earlier when the girl was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive. Rose plays homicide detective and single mother Naomi, who moves in next door to Mark with a son the same age. Gummer joins the cast as Claire, the heiress of a pharmaceutical company who rejects the family business in order to pursue more noble disease research.
