“Let Me In,” the redundant remake of last year’s horror sleeper “Let The Right One In” from “Cloverfield” director Matt Reeves, has locked down its first cast members. Along with Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road”) and Chloe Moretz (“(500) Days of Summer”), both of whom were previously tipped to play the lead roles, the picture has added the great Richard Jenkins, as what Variety describes as “the girl’s vampire-hunting guardian.”
Either Variety has its wires crossed (it wouldn’t be the first time), or the role, named Hakan in the original, has changed substantially — he was certainly not a vampire hunter first time around… Maybe they just mean vampire guardian. That would make much more sense.
Any film is immediately improved with the presence of Richard Jenkins, but we’re still dreading this — from what little we’ve seen of her work, we don’t buy Moretz in her crucial role at all. Filming starts very soon in New Mexico.