Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Richard Jenkins Cast In Let Me In
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Richard Jenkins will headline the cast of Let Me in, Matt Reeves’ American adaptation of Let the Right One In, when principal photography begins this fall in New Mexico.
Reeves (Cloverfield) has cast Smit-McPhee (The Road) and Moretz (500 Days of Summer) in the two lead adolescent roles of Owen and Abby for the eagerly awaited horror feature. Jenkins will play the lead adult character known as Hakan in the original film.
Based on the bestselling Swedish novel, “Lat den Ratte Komma In,” by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let Me In is a contemporary vampire tale about a young boy who befriends a girl new to his neighborhood. The film is a remake of the highly acclaimed Swedish film, Lat den Ratte Komma In, also known as, Let the Right One in.
Hammer acquired the remake rights to Let the Right One in at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival where the film took home the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, and has fast-tracked the film for a November 2009 start date. The film is a Hammer Films production with a projected 2010 release in the U.S. by Overture Films. Exclusive Film Distribution is handling worldwide sales and distribution of the film.
Producing the film are Hammer’s Simon Oakes, Guy East and Nigel Sinclair and Oscar-winner Donna Gigliotti. Hammer’s Alex Brunner and Tobin Armbrust will executive produce along with John Ptak, Philip Elway and Fredrik Malmberg. Overture’s Robert Kessel, EVP Production & Acquisitions, will oversee production for the studio. Swedish producers John Nordling and Carl Molinder, who produced the original film, are also involved as producers on this remake.
The Australian-born Smit-McPhee, 13, stars alongside Viggo Mortensen in The Road, a film festival favorite due out in November. He previously earned the AFI Young Actor’s Award in 2007 for his role in Romulus, My Father. He was rumored for this role back in July of this year.
Moretz, 12, will star in the much-talked-about Kick-Ass next spring and previously appeared in 500 Days of Summer and The Amityville Horror. She has been nominated each of the past three years for a Young Artist Award.
Jenkins recent work includes Burn After Reading, Step Brothers and television’s Six Feet Under. He is due to star in several upcoming projects including the much-anticipated Cabin in the Woods from Joss Whedon.
It was announced last year that Reeves will write and direct Let Me In. I think the casting is perfect thus far and having seen the foreign version of the story I can say that these child actors will be just as good maybe better.
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