Celebrated composer Michael Giacchino (“Mission: Impossible III,” “The Incredibles,” “Star Trek,” “Ratatouille,”), who finally won an Oscar in 2009 for his sweet and nostalgic score to Pixar’s “Up,” has been tapped to write the score for Matt Reeves’ upcoming remake of the beloved Swedish vampire hit, “Let The Right One In” — this American version being retitled “Let Me In.”
The announcement on Giacchino’s website is not a major surprise considering he already scored Matt Reeves’ “Cloverfield,” which was a J.J. Abrams-related project and also “Star Trek,” 114 episodes of “Lost,” plus “Fringe” and “Alias” among many many other projects (though note; Abrams isn’t even executive producing this one). The trailer arrived recently and we were pleasantly surprised, especially given that this immediate remake seems fairly unnecessary. Incidentally a new poster for “Let Me In” has been released as well which you can see below the jump.
Directed by Tomas Alfredson, “Let The Right One In” featured an excellent and memorable score by Swedish composer Johan Söderqvist (“Things We Lost in the Fire,” “Brødre”), so Giacchino has a lot to live up to musically. Here’s the synopsis of the film if you have no clue what it’s about.
An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield).
Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.
When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.
The gifted cast of Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name.
“Let Me In” stars Chloe Moretz (“Kick-Ass”), Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road”), Richard Jenkins (“Step Brothers”) and is due in theaters October 1.