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We should fully face up and admit it while we're here. Like many others, we vociferously groaned last year when we heard "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves announced he would be filming an English-Language remake of the Swedish vampire/coming-of-age story, "Let The Right One In."
Fast forward to a year later and we were eating our words like Dracula on a bender. Reeves' "Let Me In" was not only on par with the original, it was arguably better on multiple levels. The horror wasn't cartoony (aside from maybe 1-2 shots) and actually horrific and therefore created a much more haunting dichotomy with the tenderness of the pre-pubescent friendship/love story. Plus the original didn't have the utterly amazing Richard Jenkins who emoted so much in perhaps 10 lines of dialogue or less and Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee, both of whom are going to be huge stars one day (especially Moretz, watch out).
Yet even good worth of mouth and reviews couldn't save the film and North American audiences ignored the version shot for them (oh the shame and irony). Not even a resounding thumbs up from Stephen King, who called it one of the best horror films in the last 20 years (we completely agree) doesn't seem like it's moved the needle at all. Sigh.
Well, onto what's next and/or may or may not be next (frankly Reeves would be an excellent "Wolverine 2" contender, but we don't want him to waste his time). Before "Let Me In" came into the picture, Reeves was going to follow-up "Cloverfield" with an indie project called, "The Invisible Woman" starring Naomi Watts.
While it sounded like a genre film and therefore easier to finance, Reeves said this was not the case at all and actually the picture was much more of a "Hitchcockian" thriller and character study that might have been a difficult sell. While Reeves calls it a "passion project" that he would one day like to make, the filmmaker noted that Watts is no longer attached and it doesn't sound like anything he is making soon. The director spoke to IGN:"My first thought after finishing Cloverfield was to go back to my passion project, 'The Invisible Woman.' And it was a very difficult moment - I'd just done Cloverfield and that had been a success which should have helped me get the movie made, but [Invisible Woman] wasn't a particularly genre-based film. I guess you could say it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but it's very character-based. It was a quintessential independent film, and at just that moment, the independent film world started to implode. A lot of companies went out of business in a very short period of time."
"I'm getting a lot of interesting things to read (alluding to the various offers he's had in the last six months), but I'm very passionate to get 'Invisible Woman' made, and it comes down to finding the right cast and finding someone who would get behind it enough to take that risk. I don't even want to think how many years I've been trying to get this movie made but it's definitely a priority of mine to get that movie made."
What is next for Reeves? At the moment, that's undecided, but after our mixed feelings on the gimmicky, but entertaining "Cloverfield," we're suddenly excited to find there's another thoughtful genre helmer around who can bring pathos, intelligence and care to characters, on top of delivering action set-pieces and effects. Why didn't Reeves get "Superman" over Zack Snyder (or Duncan Jones for that matter)? That's a question we'll be asking ourselves all year. Btw, here's a deleted scene from "Let Me In" that you should check out.
With what will likely be the most financially successful project of his career, "The Fighter," hitting theaters this fall, David O. Russell is not lacking for a choice of projects to follow it up with. But it looks like he's walking away from one he has been linked to for the better part of the year.
NYMag reports that scheduling conflicts forced Russell's hand to exit the director's chair for "Pride And Prejudice And Zombies" so he could make the previously announced comedy, "Old St. Louis." 'Zombies' producer and star Natalie Portman apparently couldn't make the start date Russell was shooting for so he ultimately opted to leave the project and film 'St. Louis' next March.
The film is set to star Vince Vaughn who will play "a divorced traveling toy salesman who reconnects with his teen daughter after years on the road." Vaughn would play the salesman, with Scarlett Johansson eyeing the role of his lover and secretary who joins him on a cross-country jaunt. Johansson was announced earlier this year to be joining the cast, but with the film now shooting in March, her commitment to "The Avengers" has forced her out of the film. That said, the scheduling now makes it more likely that Chloe Moretz, linked to play the daughter, will be taking part in the film.
While we would've loved to see a 'Zombies' pic helmed by Russell, it's no great loss either. The director is at his sharpest when chronicling dysfunctional relationships and 'St. Louis' looks to be right in his comfort zone. In fact, even though the project has been kicking around for years with scripts by Steve Pink ("Grosse Pointe Blank," "High Fidelity" ) and Allen Loeb ("Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps"), it's been given a complete overhaul by Russell who wrote a new script and will be receiving the only writing credit on the project. And at the very least, we hope it at least marks a return-to-form of sorts for Vaughn who has seriously been phoning it in for his last half dozen or so movies.
While we're bummed audiences pretty much ignored "Let Me In" this weekend, around the Playlist water cooler, we can all agree it's a great film, with some of us arguing (blasphemy!) that its even better than Tomas Alfredson's "Let The Right One In." At any rate, Chloe Moretz is ace in the film, and her career is on the rise. In an interview with Collider, the actress talked about what's next on her plate and also, what isn't.
Right now, the actress is filming Martin Scorsese's "Hugo Cabret" but after that she reveals, "I think my next one will be 'Hick' with Derick Martini, which is very exciting. Kirsten Dunst is in talks to be in the movie." The film was first announced this summer and its a tremendously gritty film. It "tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas." The pistol-packin' protagonist ends up rolling with a "cocaine snorting grifter" who enlists her help for a robbery and later gets raped by a man in a secluded motel. It will definitely be a dramatic shift for the actress. Dunst's potential involvement is definitely new, but it looks like the project is slowly putting the pieces together.
As for "Kick-Ass 2" which Mark Millar keeps insisting is happening, Moretz pours a bucket of cold water on that idea saying, "Yeah, I’d totally love to be Hit Girl again, but I don’t know about 'Kick-Ass 2.' Everyone’s like, “It’s just been announced!,” but I’m like, “No, it hasn’t. That’s all rumor.” This echoes comments by other cast members including most recently, Aaron Johnson, who said he hasn't seen a script or heard anything about it even though he talks regularly to Matthew Vaughn.
Big things on the horizon for the actress who is also linked to Karyn Kusama's hunting/survival film "The Rut" and more recently, "Emily The Strange" (though she says that one is still a bit of a way off). Moretz is in theaters now with "Let Me In" and will be seen after that in Ami Mann's "The Fields."
How awesome is it that sweet Chloe Moretz is sidestepping the honeyed kid career route (see Dakota Fanning roles) and becoming more of a modern film icon for teenage disenfranchisement. She's already played the irascible and sarcastic Hitgirl from the "Kick Ass" series, played an angry and lonely vampire in the upcoming, "Let Me In," and now she's going to playing yet another perturbed and smart-alecky teen.
Back in May 2008, an adaptation of the Dark Horse, cult comic character Emily The Strange was announced as in development with Universal Pictures and Deadline has just announced that Moretz (who is also starring in Scorsese's upcoming, "Hugo Cabret") has scored the coveted gig.
The character — a quiet but sharp-witted individualist — was created by Rob Reger and he says, "When I first met Chloe, I knew I found my Emily. She really identifies and understands the character, and has what it takes to bring her to life."
Nerds dying for it to happen should note that Deadline says Moritz is expected to play Hitgirl in the "Kick Ass 2," and yes, that picture will probably, eventually happen, but don't hold your breath for seeing it in say 2011. The principals are busy. Or at least, director Matthew Vaughn has at least one more film ("X-Men: First Class") to contend with before he can even possibly begin thinking about the sequel. While we're here, Vaughn is extremely talented and we hope he doesn't align himself once again with the lardaceous Mark Millar again.
We should fully face up and admit it while we're here. Like many others, we vociferously groaned last year when we heard "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves announced he would be filming an English-Language remake of the Swedish vampire/coming-of-age story, "Let The Right One In."
