A&E Bringing Let the Right One In to the Small Screen
John Squires
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One of the big trends in the world of entertainment right now is turning popular horror movies into TV series with shows like “Hannibal” and “Bates Motel” proving that it’s not always a bad idea. Up next, A&E brings one of the best vampire flicks of all time to the small screen. Details await!
Per THR, the network is teaming with “Teen Wolf” showrunner Jeff Davis and actor-screenwriter Brandon Boyce (Apt Pupil) to adapt the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, which was of course already remade in 2010 as the American feature Let Me In.
Based on the best-selling Swedish book by John Ajvide Lindqvist that was subsequently adapted into the critically acclaimed 2008 movie directed by Tomas Alfredson, “Let the Right One In” will center on a bullied teen boy who befriends a young female vampire. When a series of strange murders pops up in their small Vermont town, it attracts the attention of a federal marshal with a mysterious past of his own.
The drama, which is in the development stage, is being produced in-house via A+E Studios and Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements’ (“Teen Wolf,” “Aquarius”) Tomorrow Studios. Davis, Boyce, Adelstein, Clements, and Hammer’s Simon Oakes will executive produce. The property was optioned from Hammer Films Productions, which produced the 2010 English-language film adaptation Let Me In.
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