Craig Gillespie to Remake Fright Night?

Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Lars and the Real Girl helmer Craig Gillespie is in final talks to direct DreamWorks’ remake of Fright Night. According to the Times source, “a sweepstakes that included at least three directors appears to be coming to a close, with Craig Gillespie the man who will likely sit behind the camera.” Dreamworks apparently met with a bunch of directors on Friday and began final talks with Gillespie to helm the remake. Marti Noxon, a veteran of television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Mad Men, has been writing the screenplay, with Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig set to produce.
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Mad Men and Buffy Writer Assigned to Pen Fright Night Remake

Posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 by Russ Fischer

Back in January of this year, the world outside may have been cold and barren and gripped by the dead of winter, but my heart was warm. Because reports came that the proposed Screen Gems remake of Fright Night had died a quiet death. But everyone knows what happens in stories about monsters and the undead: the Big Bad is never really dead the first time. And every once in a while, when it surges back onto the screen, it wins and gets to stick around.

So it is with the Fright Night remake. Housed at Dreamworks since May, the potential film has now been given a writer, and not a bad one at that. Read More »

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