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Fright Night remake

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I loved Fright Night back in the 80s, but I'm gonna say it, everything I hear about the upcoming remake makes it sound potentially like a big bag of awesome.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/08/dav ... ght-night/

The casting is both spot on, and suggests a bit of a twist on the oringinal template.
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David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, that sounds it could be pretty awesome! :)
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As Fright Night is one of my favourite films ever (in fact my 2nd favourite horror after The Evil Dead) I had fully intended to skip this remake. But I must admit the casting of David Tennat has me interested. I quite like the sound of the changes being made to the Peter Vincent character. 25 years after the original, it couldn't have been a Peter Cushing type character as it was before, it would have been outdated. Making him a magician leaves room for him to be a simlar type of character to the original Peter Vincent, just from a different, more contemporary background.

Colin Farrel's not a bad choice for Jerry Dandridge either, though I would have gone with Julian McMahon.

I'll probably watch it when it comes on telly.
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The director of this is going to be David Gillespie who made Lars and the Real Girl. although I didn't much like that film he's a potentially an interesting director (at the very least a cut above the likes of Marcus Nispel). That and the quality casting definately move this into the list of in development films to keep tabs on.
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Re: Fright Night remake

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OH my oh my! I LOVED Fright Night! I still watch it today, had to get a copy on DVD in from American though :x


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Cutie Imogen Poots, from 28 Weeks Later and Centurion, has been cast as the girlfriend, Amy.
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