"I felt like there was an opportunity to do something incredibly personal while still being in a genre arena.”

*Whistle Blown*

Personal Foul. Roughing the original material and having to go out their way to defend why. Director Number: Matt Reeves

5 year penalty

2nd Down.

While I liked Cloverfield, I don't like Matt Reeves, if anything I would have hoped someone else would take the eventual remake into their hands instead of this guy.

um, yeah NO. No remakes. Leave the movie alone, release it in America, dub it in English, do whatver you gotta do, BUT DON'T DO THE REMAKE!!!

"Amelie" was a huge hit here, even though it was French. Americans WILL go see foreign films if advertised properly.

This is on par with Steven Soderbergh remaking Casablanca.

Yes LTROI is that good and yes this is that bad an idea.

I can understand Americans are too lazy to read subtitles.
But there is NO reason to remake a great flick like this. Hell just re dub the voices into english and release it.

The whole remake trend towards fantastic foreign films has to end. Remaking a film means there is either a problem with the movie or your just trying to bring what the film maker wasn't able to the screen with todays tech.

This movie isn't even 2 years old right?

“I had such a personal reaction when I saw the movie and when I read the book. I felt like there was an opportunity to do something incredibly personal while still being in a genre arena.”

Someone DID something incredibly personal while still being in a genre arena, the original director and script writer...

God, I hate Hollywood's mindset.

I'm going to have to agree with Angry Broomstick. Why is there a need to remake this movie? Must the American audience be spoonfed everything? Other countries in the world simply dub American films, not remake them. Why can't we extend the same courtesy? It doesn't matter whether or not Reeves stays 'true' to the original it will not BE the orginal. He will not be able to capture the same atmosphere and performances that have allready been made. This movie JUST came out so it won't even be dated. If a foreign film is good, then we should watch that film not it's 'Americanized' cousin. This is the same bloody reason why I can't watch remakes of British or Australian TV shows. Why can't I just watch the original show? Must everything that is good from somewhere else be put through the American meat grinder?

@ Dave

not all of hollywood's mindset is like this
we are just working our way up from the bottom currently

i really enjoyed the movie as well. do we really need to point out the 2 year "anniversary" of cloverfield? like thats going to be a special moment in movie history? who gives a crap?

@ DLB


*blows whistle*


that was seriously the most stupidest comment i have ever read.

heh heh...look at me...im pretending im a football referee...

fucken retard..

"most stupidest"? Way to go dumbass.

Tomas Alfredson:
“Remakes should be made of movies that aren’t very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong,” Alfredson tells Moviezine. “I’m very proud of my movie and think it’s great, but the Americans might be of an other opinion. The saddest thing for me would be to see that beautiful story made into something mainstream.” … “I don’t like to whine, but of course – if you’d spent years on painting a picture, you’d hate to hear buzz about a copy even before your vernissage!”

Fuck Matt Reeves.

I love that quote about remakes.

Ive seen the movie, it's amazing, different from anything else Ive seen about vampires, and it is perfect. It is going to be butchered by Hollywood, the guy who made Cloverfield (Big Yuck!) is remaking the film, enough said.

I'll say it again. Matt Reeves fucking sucks.

America - Reading subtitles is a lot of work :'(

@the dude okay:

How about shutting up. His comment was spot on.

@ Dlb

I certainly seems like a very DEEP bottom.



What happened, they can release DVD's with a dozen different languages, but can't release a foreign film that's been dubbed?

3 days before. Cloverfield came out 1/18/08

@the dude okay

I certainly look forward to the day that "most stupidest" becomes an accepted phrasing in the english language. I also look forward to the day that people also say LOL instead of laughing.

Until that day comes? You shall, and always, remain a troll.

Do the world a favor and read a god damn book.

He wants to make a personal movie huh? Remaking somebody else's personal movie seems like a great place to start. Riiiiight.

@ dlb

Today, you are the man.

i have to agree with peter i just saw this last night and it was AMAZING
i loved it
please dont remake it please

do something personal with your own film, u hack!

remake directors should feel filthy.

*with exception of the obvious 0.01% exceptions of course - like de palma.

Leave it alone, go make cloverfield does dallas. Just leave a good movie alone.

I don't understand all the hate for this remake. Infernal Affairs was an incredible film. Scorsese remade it as The Departed, which won four oscars. But no one got on Scorsese's case about remaking Affairs? One other thing many of you are forgetting is that the Swedish film is an adaptation of a book. Reeves isn't necessarily remaking the film, but instead doing an American adaptation of the book.

Peter, come on, I expected more from you. No one should remake this film, it's perfect, and nothing should be changed about it.

@ Pete.

The movie hasn't been out for 2 years yet. An original idea would bring a helluva lot more praise towards Matt than his poor idea of remaking a movie that is still hitting the festivals.

And if a remake must be made... There are tons of old movies that could use a new coat of paint. Not that I'd even want that.

Just saw the film today and it truly is a great film. It deserves word of mouth and it deserves a wider release. With a little luck the film will get it's reward and it will make any thoughts of a remake look foolish.

I'm lost all respect for directors-for-remake-hire.

I love that Michael Bay is calling out Matt Reeves in this thread. That is funny stuff :)

1. Reeves is no Scorcese.
2. A remake of a well made, and VERY recent foreign film is pointless.
3. The novel was written in 2004, and he had such a 'personal reaction' to it, yet he waited for someone else to make the film first?
4. The Little Mermaid was an adaptation of a book, too. That doesn't mean anything.

If he's such a talent, how about persuing something original?
It's alot to ask, I know.

Goobity:

1. Very true, but hes also not a hack director. Watch his early tv work. He's very good in a character centric story
2. Infernal Affairs was also very well made.
3. Don't know.
4. And 2 Beowulf movies came out in a 2 year span. No one was on Paramount's ass for doing an adaptation after the UK live action film was released

He did something original, he did cloverfield. I'm not saying its an amazing film, but look at what he pulled on on a relatively low budget. The movie made huge bank and had a lot of supporters/fans

Also, James Cameron's True Lies was a remake of a french film that came out only a couple years earlier.

I like Matt Reeves, but I love Let the Right One In. It's one of the best and definitely my favorite film I've seen this year so far (besides Happy Go Lucky). I understand Hollywood is remaking this with or without Reeves, so I'd rather him than some mediocre genre director, but I still wish it wasn't true.

"He did something original, he did cloverfield."

I liked it when it was called The Blair Witch Project. All he did was replace the so-called witch with a dinosaur from space. Also citing that because his shitty movie made lots of money as a form of discounting him as a hack is laughable.

Britney Spears sells millions of albums too?

I was blown away by the movie. That quote of Matt Reeves makes him sound like a complete idiot.

A remake will be inferior. That's the end of it. There's really no beating around the bush, it was a great film.

@ Pete

What do you think about just a re-dub of the voices?
It would make more sense to me than a remake.

I think that's BS and arrogant.
People just don't like reading

please do not remake Let the Right One In it is PERFECT how it is, why does it need to be re-made?

and i LOVE cloverfield but idk

please don't ruin this movie.

If people can stomach subtitles for Mel Gibson's films then I think it would be fine to do a wide release of the swedish version. Subtitles didn't hurt The Passion or Apocalypto's box office take at all. The Passion is even the top grossing R rated film of all time.

@Peter

I understand what your saying, but you are forgetting that for every good 'remake' there's a dozen more that fail. All you have to do is look at the flood of Japanese/Korean horror remakes that have come out in recent years to find examples of this.

Every once in a while, when you get a team of people working on a remake that understand the source material you do end up with a good film. However, it's still not the original. Maybe it's because I'm an anime fan but I really don't understand the need to remake all these foreign films. Something like Infernal Affairs I can see. Americans are not familiar with other cultures and a lot of things can go over their heads as such. There are always references to things (both historical and cultural) which simply do not translate (most often humour I've found). However, is the Swedish culture different enough from our own that a remake is required?

I think if Reeves were to have said "I discovered this amasing novel and although there is currently a Swedish movie based on it I feel I can interpret the story in my own way." I don't think there would be so much flack about it. But by saying that it IS a remake of the film one gets the impression that he's not trying to reinterpret the original source material but rather profit off of the success of the film.

But, as I've heard before we'll always have the original film so if he does f' it up we can just not watch it and instead have a DVD night with the one we all love, eh? :)

yo yo ma,

Not to mention Pan's Labyrinth and Amelie. Those films did great here even with their subtitles attached.

Lose is spelt with one 'o'.

I've decided to remake Gone With The Wind, but I'm taking it in a new direction. Rhett can fire lasers out of his eyes, and Scarlett is a post-op transsexual and also a zombie. I think if you examine the source material, these elements are already there. I'm just expanding on them in my personal vision. It's going to star Keanu Reeves and Ben Affleck in drag. I am not doing this for money or success, I'm doing it because deep down, we all know this is a story that needs to be told.

This will likely be on par with the catastrophic remake of 'WINGS OF DESIRE" into that embarrassment of an imitation. What sorry visionless person would take the likes of fine Belgian dark chocolate, switch it out for waxy Hershey's milk chocolate and call it an improvement. An impoverishment is what I'd call it, and more than likely what the American public will once again be offered. This movie rocked in large part because it's maker understood and stayed connected to, even through the occasional playful fits of genre kitsch, something vital about the human soul, the difficult and sometimes dangerous choices it faces and adopts in it's frequently under supported quest to aquire personal identity and creative power.
I was actually hoping to see a part two, in which our young Oskar somehow happens across a book or teacher or some other wise or gifted soul who lets him see his present choices in light of where this road actually leads him and in context what's actually possible for him, so that he has an available option to "Let The Right One In"... not a remake of this remarkable piece of film making.
For anyone interested in a very practical book on the two forms power takes in our communication and our lives, try reading Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. For being very pragmatic and mundane, it has all of the power and wisdom of the ages in it. For the more spiritually minded, try Sandra Maiitri's book, The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues. The Lord of the Rings tells a similar story. It would be lovely to see Oskar attempt to break free and wean himself off of and return this "ring of power" to the fire before it uses him up (as is it's nature) and kills him.

I saw this movie on a tuesday at 10:30 pm and it had a pretty good crowd. Hopefully it will get a wider release. Word of mouth is our best ally. To quickredfox, I was wondering also if they would make a sequel but only if it was as good. This movie was a like a perfectly formed gem. Id hate to see it messed with especially by hollywood. "Hey are you like some kind of like vampire or something.Totally." I will be pissed if that guy fux up this film. Again to quickredfox, Im not sure exactly what you mean by what Oskar should do but I feel that Eli is the one who should do something. Eli is a victim of being a vampire. If she has feelings for Oskar she should kill herself like that other woman who became a vampire.

Chances are they would make a sequel. Just wait for 1 or 2 years, and they will do that.

Reeves has stated that it will be his adaptation of the book, not a "re-make" of the movie. I for one am glad a big name was inspired by this work of art enough to want to put forth his version of the source material. Now this is not to say I think it will achieve any thing close to Alfredson's movie did, but go type the movie title into IMDB and Both will come up in the results, and with that people can see the rating and comments. So yeah, inevitably people ARE going to talk about the Swedish version even more once 2010 sees this release.

To me, the core of what made Alfredson's movie so damned heartfelt is the chemistry, casting, and performances of Lina and Kare. That won't happen the same way again. Their performance defines sincerity. But also the small things were just brilliant. There are so many little details one can find with more than one viewing, like Lina's eyes glowing and then appearing more snake-like, but just briefly enough to tease you. The details; one scene exemplifies this to me most of all, and no one seems to hilight it: when Kare gets switched across the face by the bullies, notice the tone that plays right after it happens. It's exactly the sound you hear inside your head in such an event, kind of a ringing in the ears with all other sound muted perfectly.

Anyways.. yeah, when the remake is released I think it'll be great publicity for the original. But it is a shame the marketing dpt. dropped the ball on this fine flic. We've seen some very well received sub-title movies come out, and I think this one even has more potential due to the sparse dialog. A more cerebral presentation such as the Swedish version lets us focus on visual cues and setting, colors, facial expression, the music and sound effects. There just aren't enough lines of dialog needing to be subtitled to warrant being scared away from this film.

The author of the book wrote the screenplay for the film. Do you think Hollywood will do the same? I'm betting we'll see Oskar as a 20 something rebel / social outcast and Eli as a sexy, 20 something wearing vampish clothes with a marketing tie in at department stores. She'll be a superhero, flying like superman, uprooting trees, and battling bad guys, government agents, and hired vampire hit men trying to do her in. There will be lots of explosions, car chases, telekinesis, vampire detectors, and cheesy one liners like, "Eli, you're the greatest, I love you" to which she'll reply, "I Know". Then the scientist that befriends the young couple will discover a cure for Eli's vampirism, and the Oscar and Eli will live happily ever after.
The sequel will show how Eli, though cured of her vampirism, still retains her vampire powers, and how she goes on to slay vampires and terrorist bad guys.

My god, I can't believe they're even thinking about this, but then again I've seen too many awful American remakes of great foreign movies to doubt that it's gonna happen...

I don't see the point of a remake at all. Why can't American people read subtitles? It's not that difficult...

I haven't seen the original but I will and just skip the remake COMPLETELY.

If they are going to make a remake, I'd wish that they wouldn't use the same name. Because I have a feeling they are going to completely change everything, and, therefore, shouldn't deserve the same title.

And to all those assuming that a remake is being made merely because Americans are "too lazy" to read subtitles, I highly doubt that that is the case. That's just ridiculous and, frankly, I'm sick of everyone generalizing that all Americans are unintelligent, lazy, fat, selfish bastards because it's not true! I'm American and I don't mind reading subtitles on foreign films, in fact, I prefer it.