Rising actor and famous sibling Dave Franco has been added to the cast of Craig Gillespie’s remake of 1985 campy horror film “Fright Night.”
The project is currently shooting in New Mexico and boasts a strong cast including Anton Yelchin as the lead, Toni Collette as his mother, Imogen Poots as his love interest, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as his friend Evil Ed, David Tennant as magician Peter Vincent and Colin Farrell as a “Jaws”-like vampire living next door. We didn’t think much of it when Gillespie was announced as director for the remake but with all these thespians? We’re definitely signed up.
“I play the arrogant asshole-bully,” explained Franco — who recently featured in Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” in the “You Kids…” scene. “Anton plays the main kid so I’m his nemesis at school until he runs into Colin who is supposed to be the ultimate bad guy in the movie. Yeah I play the d–k, so it’s fun.”
“‘Fright Night’ is about a kid who lives next door to a vampire. What movie doesn’t involve a vampire these days? But this one will stand apart because it’s a comedic horror movie — the same thing as ‘Drag Me To Hell’ and ‘Shaun Of The Dead.’ I don’t think anybody’s made a vampire movie from that angle yet.”
The Vegas-set script comes courtesy of “Buffy” and “Mad Men” scribe Marti Noxon with a release scheduled for October 7th, 2011.