“Let Me In” is a remake of an absolutely amazing 2008 film from Sweden called “Let The Right One In” (Låt den rätte komma in) which is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The trailer below looks like the American version is going to be a shot-for-shot remake, but I’m ok with that. If being remade in English allows a broader audience to watch this magnificent film, then so be it.
Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), “Let Me In” is about Owen (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee), a bullied child who is befriended by a mysterious new neighbor, Abby (played by Chloe Moretz). Abby doesn’t go outside during the day, doesn’t ever eat food and will only come into a room once she is invited. Owen falls for his new neighbor, who seems to respond in kind and protects him from the bullies. Then all hell breaks loose.
That’s as much as I am going to give away about this movie. If you are into horror (and vampire flicks in particular), the original is a masterpiece. More than just a mere horror flick, however, the movie is a testament to the power of your “first love” and a touching coming-of-age story. Whether or not the remake will be able to compare remains to be seen, but I am very happy with the casting of Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl in Kick-Ass) as Abby (Eli in the original).
Check out the trailer below!
The original version (“Let The Right One In”) is currently available on Netflix Instant, so if you’re a subscriber I definitely suggest you go check it out.
“Let Me In” is due to be released October 1, 2010.
Check out a clip of some of the behind the scenes stunt work and training that 13-year-old Chloe Moretz was doing for her role as Hit Girl in the movie Kick-Ass.
The segment is called “A New Kind of Superhero: The Making of Kick-Ass” and the documentary can only be found on the Kick-Ass Blu-ray, which hits shelves August 3rd
She’s a little bad ass.
source:Exclusive “Kick-Ass” Video Clip! [Premiere.com]
On a cold day last December, an actor playing a part against Angelina Jolie leaned over and kissed her. The only trouble was, it wasn’t in the script.
“I try to be selective with my improvising,†said Jason Butler Harner, who is her co-star in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming “Changeling.†So he checked with the director first. “Clint approved,†he said. “He could see it happening and he said, ‘Do it and we’ll see what happens.’â€
That Clint sure is a sneaky one.
Jolie was supposed to be pushing Harner against a wall. It was the movie’s climatic scene, and her character, Christine Collins, was supposed to be confronting his character, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and asking him, “Did you kill my son?†(The film is based on a true story; in the 1920s, Collins’ son was abducted, and another boy was “returned†to her instead. When she insisted that the second boy was not her son, she was deemed hysterical, when actually it was a case of LAPD corruption).
“I had talked to her at the beginning of the day,†Harner said. “We had a big scene, and we’re supposed to be coming out of our corners, so it was a ‘How do we do this?’â€
Nowhere in that talk did he mention he was planning to lay one on her, however. But Eastwood approved because he likes to shoot and use things that actors don’t expect — a scene they might well believe is just a rehearsal, for instance. So for the big climax being shot the last week of a 35-day shoot, he wanted Jolie to be caught off guard — and she was.
“She slapped me and she held me and she hit me and it was great,†Harner said. “She totally went with it. She’s really smart. She’s beautiful, but she’s really smart, and she’s a great actress.â€
“That guy invited the parents of the kids he killed to come the day before he was executed,†Harner said, “so he could tell them where the bodies were, or how he did it. But when they got there, he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He was demented and deserved a lot of things [to be done to him]. Including a slap, at the very least.â€
She just increased in “sexual fantasy” ratings with men.
