Cloverfield Director To Remake Let The Right One In

[Aesop Rocks]

I'm giving this a chance simply because I completely LOVE Cloverfield, Kick-Ass, and The Road.

I really can't think of better people behind this... Chole is going to be a perfect Abby and Kodi is going to be a perfect Owen.

 

[ALP]

Who involved with Kick-Ass and The Road is working on this?(I loved the former, didn't care for the latter)

I saw Cloverfield once and never plan to see it again.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Chole M who played Hit-Girl is Abby in Let Me In and Kobi S-M who played The Boy is Owen in Let Me In.

 

[ALP]

Oh them, my mistake, I thought you were talking about writers or some sort. I really liked the acting in The Road, the film just didn't come together well enough for me. Chole Moretz actually looks too much like a girl for the ambiguity and 'gender' ideas of the original(something much more fleshed out in the book), but I suppose that doesn't really matter because they're completely scraping that part- obviously for the Americanization.

But I do like the trailers though. Judging from all of the information I know thus far, there's no way I will prefer this to the original. However, I still hope to enjoy this one on some level.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

The whole gender debate makes me a sad panda.

 

[ALP]

In the book it is clear as crystal. Nothing to debate about. Unless you mean a debate on its exclusion in this adaptation...

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Wait, in the book, she's a he?! D:

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, that little boy from The Road was superb. It's so rare to find that in male actors at that age.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I don't know how i feel about this! D:

 

[ALP]

Feel about what?

In the novel, Eli is boy who was castrated by a vampire hundreds of years ago. You could say, in order to cope(because he no longer has those parts) Eli takes on the identity of a girl. At the Swedish film Institute, Thomas Alfredson talked a bit about it. He mentioned he did not want it to be explicit as it is in the book so he only threw in the one scene showing Eli's crotch- to get people talking. This is also why he threw out the fact that Hakan was a pedophile. He wanted things to feel ambiguous. I applaud him for most of those decisions. One of the reasons why I am still rather open minded about the remake.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It isn't really ambiguous in the original film either. They show a clear sign of castration.

 

[ALP]

True, but people still like to debate it. Alfredson got exactly what he wanted. But the American adaptation is not ballsy enough to do anything like that.

 

[Figs]

True, but people still like to debate it. Alfredson got exactly what he wanted. But the American adaptation is not ballsy enough to do anything like that.

Which is why i'm glad there isn't anymore talk about that remake of Old Boy that Spielberg and Will Smith wanted to do. That would have been sooo watered down it would have been another pointless remake.

 

[ALP]

Which is why i'm glad there isn't anymore talk about that remake of Old Boy that Spielberg and Will Smith wanted to do. That would have been sooo watered down it would have been another pointless remake.

If there ever is an American remake, Spielberg and Smith should be the furthest from it. They're just too wholesome

My thing is that I simply think studios should promote foreign films they distribute. Instead of remaking them, why not try to get the average Americans to appreciate the originals. Advertise it on netflicks, video stores, etc. I never ever see foreign films played on tv, that would be a good idea.

 

[Figs]

If there ever is an American remake, Spielberg and Smith should be the furthest from it. They're just too wholesome

My thing is that I simply think studios should promote foreign films they distribute. Instead of remaking them, why not try to get the average Americans to appreciate the originals. Advertise it on netflicks, video stores, etc. I never ever see foreign films played on tv, that would be a good idea.

Some directors like Quentin Tarantino try to help bring some foreign films over here. I think it was either Hero or House of Flying Daggers that had Quentin's name attached when I saw the trailer in the theatre years ago.

I wish more directors and producers for that matter would start trying to do that more.

 

[:eek:]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46180

 

[flickchick85]

Thanks for the link. So it would appear that Harry Knowles and Drew McWeeny have seen and loved this remake, and they're both big fans of the original (it was Harry's #1 movie of '08). The buzz from the Comic-Con footage was also quite positive. Interesting.

 

[Assassin32]

The first time I saw the movie and caught that quick glimpse of Eli's scar, I immediately thought that she had been pregnant once and maybe the child had been taken out through that scar.

 

[Paroxysm]

 

[Figs]

I was thinking that if this movie is as slow as the original I can already imagine how many viewers are going to leave the theatre disappointed.

I love the original and let my sister borrow it who hates modern horror films and mainly because of remakes. She didn't like it because of that same reason, it was waaay too slow.

I'm thinking this will have a much faster pace than the original since this remake is an American film after all.

 

[Figs]

http://www.**************.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=22415

Not sure if this was posted earlier and this site just got it late.

 

[Project862006]

thats a great clip

 

[Aesop Rocks]

What a great clip!

 

[Figs]

I like it but I need to see a little more before I fully warm up to the sequel.

 

[Project862006]

i just hope it is'nt a replica that was the main reason i have yet to go watch quarantine