With a script by Marti Noxon, former ‘Buffy’ showrunner and “Mad Men” consultant, Craig Gillespie’s remake of ’80’s horror flick “Fright Night” was always destined to steer away from its campy, lo-fi predecessor.
Starring Anton Yelchin and Toni Collete as the lead mother and son, the film also has Irish thespian Colin Farrell on board as the neighboring vampire but don’t expect any ‘Twilight’ business with his character.
“He’s a much more ‘Jaws’-like vampire in the Amblin tradition,” Noxon told Variety. The remake will also reportedly be set in Las Vegas with production set to begin as soon as later this summer. Still no word, however, on whether rumors of the film going meta, with the protagonist reaching out to an actor from the original film for help with his vampire problems, are true.
Good old small town Las Vegas!