Cloverfield Director To Remake Let The Right One In

[Aesop Rocks]

(basing this off of the set pic between the boy and her) I think Chole will be her own Eli, if that makes any sense.

 

[Avengers-Report]

When will we see a Cloverfield 2?!?!

 

[Aesop Rocks]

After this and Star Trek, and Super 8.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I really don't need to see a Cloverfield 2. If it happens, hey, I'll look forward to it, but I'm not holding my breath for it at this point. I'm much more interested in Super 8 and Star Trek 2.

 

[Sentinel X]

Why is she wearing a jacket? In the original she is just in pajamas and a thin shirt in the freezing cold...I thought that was far more effective.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Why is she wearing a jacket? In the original she is just in pajamas and a thin shirt in the freezing cold...I thought that was far more effective.

Because this isn't a direct remake and are you really gonna complain about a jacket?

i saw some Idiot on IMDB claiming the movie was ruined cause of it. Was that you?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I agree about the girl who played Eli (though I wasn't particularly impressed with the boy who played Oskar), but I really hope Chloe doesn't try to imitate her performance - that would be a BIG mistake, imo. That said, she didn't seem to be trying to do that in her audition tape, so I'm fairly optimistic on that front.

i think she stated in a interview that she's never even seen the original.

 

[Project862006]

Because this isn't a direct remake and are you really gonna complain about a jacket?

i saw some Idiot on IMDB claiming the movie was ruined cause of it. Was that you?

i think his sarcasm when over your head dude

but sarcasm+Internet = never works

 

[The Apatow Crew]

No, I'm sure the guy or person is dead serious but whatever. Either way I don't give a crap. So go ahead ahead and be the cool person.

 

[flickchick85]

i think she stated in a interview that she's never even seen the original.

Oh. Well that's...interesting. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but at least it's safe to say they didn't want her to imitate Lina Leandersson's performance, lol.

 

[Sentinel X]

Because this isn't a direct remake and are you really gonna complain about a jacket?

i saw some Idiot on IMDB claiming the movie was ruined cause of it. Was that you?

No Mr."spokesperson and defender" of this remake, that wasn't me ... its a SIMPLE and HARMLESS observation. Take a breath or two.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Ladies! Ladies! calm down!

 

[The Apatow Crew]

No Mr."spokesperson and defender" of this remake, that wasn't me ... its a SIMPLE and HARMLESS observation. Take a breath or two.

Dude, calm down.

I hope you think I wasn't serious. Maybe I should have maybe put a little smiley icon behind it.

 

[Sentinel X]

Dude, calm down.

I hope you think I wasn't serious. Maybe I should have maybe put a little smiley icon behind it.

Oh...my bad , its kind of hard for me to detect sarcasm online without a smilie

 

[DACrowe]

I will give this a chance and plan to see it, but I have serious doubt about it holding up to the original. However, I enjoyed The Ring and thought The Departed was a masterpiece, so was Christopher Nolan's Insomnia.

So, I can't get too snobby about foreign remakes now. With that said the image of her in pajamas and barefoot was really iconic in the original. Putting her in a coat and hat that hides her hair destroys the deceptively innocent image of a frail girl in the snow.

But I really like the two child actors--their work in Kick-Ass, 500 Days of Summer and The Road was astonishing--so I'll see it.

P.S. I have never seen Cloverfield (never got the gimmicky hype and style of that film), so that does not affect my opinion on this remake one way or the other, really.

 

[echostation]

I think Eli will transform secretly into Voltron

 

[flickchick85]

So I just read the screenplay myself the other day, and, well, it's exactly what I expected. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't think it adds anything new to the story - at most, it cuts out any ambiguity and runs with Matt Reeves' own interpretation of those points left ambiguous (ie, [blackout]Abby's guardian was a kid just like Owen once, not a pedophile as it was with the most common interpretation - not to mention the author's original intent, I believe[/blackout]). And yes, it's very "Americanized," complete with a montage set to a moody song ([blackout]Gary Jules' "Mad World"[/blackout]) toward the end and random flashbacks and "premonitions" to keep the ADD crowd's attention.

That said, aside from those changes and a couple of narrative shifts, it DOES stay very faithful to the original, with many scenes as carbon copies. And imo, it does keep the best scenes of the original while cutting out a couple I didn't care for.

So while I do still think it is a pointless remake and obviously won't be as good as the original, I'll still see it, because as I've said before, it'll be nice for me personally to watch a competent version of the story where none of the intentions of the filmmakers are lost in translation via subtitles. And at least it doesn't butcher the story (or Twilight-ify it or turn up the violence for the "cool factor," for that matter).

 

[The Apatow Crew]

And you got it where, might i ask?

 

[flickchick85]

I found a link online that's gone now. But that's why PM's are handy.

 

[AlteredEgo]

blah. i just hate that [BLACKOUT]Mad World[/BLACKOUT] is the typical go-to moody song now.

it was effective the first few times I heard it. Now it just kinda makes me roll my eyes.

 

[KenK]

blah. i just hate that [BLACKOUT]Mad World[/BLACKOUT] is the typical go-to moody song now.

it was effective the first few times I heard it. Now it just kinda makes me roll my eyes.

Oh, I thought it was gonna be [BLACKOUT]Hallelujah (The Buckley Version[/BLACKOUT]. Now THAT'S a go-to moody song I'm tired of hearing!

 

[AlteredEgo]

Oh, I thought it was gonna be [BLACKOUT]Hallelujah (The Buckley Version[/BLACKOUT]. Now THAT'S a go-to moody song I'm tired of hearing!

True that, but one is more "Isn't this eerie" moody, and the other is more "Isn't this heart-warming/wrenching". Either way, new songs people.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Hey man, at least it's not [BLACKOUT]Requiem For A Dream.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[flickchick85]

blah. i just hate that [BLACKOUT]Mad World[/BLACKOUT] is the typical go-to moody song now.

I agree. I mean, I personally just off-the-top-of-my-head can think of multiple Radiohead songs that haven't been used ad nauseum in film/tv before, which would fit this particular sequence just as well if not better than that one. And that's just me, someone who doesn't even listen to the radio - and just one example. I'm sure it wouldn't have been hard for them to think of something else. But keep in mind, a lot of these songs that are specified in screenplays never make it into the final product, so maybe, hopefully, they did end up finding something else, and that was just a "placeholder song" 'till they did.

And Aesop, about that scene you were worried about in the original: [blackout]It's still there in the draft I read. I was pretty surprised they kept it. I still have doubts it will make it into the final cut, though.[/blackout]


Also, apparently they had a test-screening:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Early-Review-Of-Let-Me-In-18873.html

Sounds a little plant-ish, but I think they definitely saw the movie, at least. And the biggest change I see from the draft I read is the setting. The final film is apparently set in [blackout]New Mexico, while the one I read was set in Littleton, Colorado. A little less anvil-ish, no?[/blackout] I guess that's a good thing.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Ugh.