“I was just hooked,” Reeves tells the Los Angeles Times. “I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.”
“There’s definitely people who have a real bull’s-eye on the film,” Reeves continued, “and I can understand because of people’s love of the [original] film that there’s this cynicism that I’ll come in and trash it, when in fact I have nothing but respect for the film. I’m so drawn to it for personal and not mercenary reasons, my feeling about it is if I didn’t feel a personal connection and feel it could be its own film, I wouldn’t be doing it. I hope people give us a chance.”
Reeves just finished a second draft of the script, currently set in Reagan-era Colorado, and is busy looking for leads and scouting the proper types of locations as a means to maintain the original story’s chilly, snow-swept environs. The film is scheduled for a fall 2010 theatrical release.
More as it comes.