Let The Right One In TV series is rounding out its cast.
The new girl in town has been 12 for a very long time, but don't invite her in. Thomas Kretschmann and Benjamin Wadsworth have been cast in the pilot of the upcomign series Let the Right One In, which Jeff Davis is directing for TNT.
Wadsworth will play Henry, the shy lonely 16 year-old boy who turns to a new and mysterious friend for comfort after being bullied in school. Kretschmann, who played Abraham Van Helsing in the horror series Dracula on NBC, will play Inspector Eriksson, a foreign police officer who has been protecting the mysterious teenage girl Eli, who has partnered with the FBI.
The series recently cast Kristine Froseth as the female lead, the young vampire Eli.
The mysterious Eli moves to an apartment building in Vermont with an equally mysterious caretaker. She becomes BFF with a 16-year-old boy, Henry and when a vampire says they are best friends for life, they aren’t kidding. Henry is being bullied by his classmates and the young bloodsucker has his back. But the small town is also plagued by a series of strange murders.
Nineteen-year-old New Jersey-born Froseth is a model who appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Serbia and was featured in Elle Norway and W Magazine. She starred in the film Prey opposite Logan Miller and recently wrapped Zoe Cassavetes’ upcoming web series Junior. Froseth will next be featured in Danny Strong’s Rebel in the Rye, which stars Nicholas Hoult and Kevin Spacey.
The Let the Right One In series is based on the best-selling vampire novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. The screenplay for the pilot was written by Jeff Davis, who ran the Teen Wolf series for four seasons. Davis started out writing a screenplay that CBS turned into Criminal Minds.
“Let the Right One Incombines elements of horror, revenge thriller and adolescent romance into an unforgettable and truly unsettling tale,” Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming at TNT, said in a statement. “This novel is a watershed of rich storytelling, making it an abundant source from which Jeff, Marty, Becky and Simon will bring to life in this all-new adaptation.”
Initially set up at A+E Studios, the pilot is being produced by Tomorrow Studios in association with Turner’s Studio T. Davis will executive produce the series along with Marty Adelstein (Prison Break, Aquarius, Teen Wolf) and Becky Clements (Aquarius) of Tomorrow Studios and Simon Oakes (Let Me In) of Hammer Films and Alex Brunner.
“TNT has amassed an incredible slate of programming and we are thrilled to extend our relationship with them. Their collaboration and shared enthusiasm for bringing Let the Right One In to the U.S. TV audience is incredibly exciting to all of us,” added Adelstein, exec producer and CEO of Tomorrow Studios.
“It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden,” reads the official book synopsis on Amazon.
“The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last---revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
“But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door---a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.
Let the Right One In was adapted from the Swedish book of the same name about a bullied boy and a little female vampire written by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Let the Right One In was remade by writer/director Matt Reeves into the extremely fine Let Me In in 2010 starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloe Grace Moretz. Let Me In earned $24.1 million worldwide and was nominated for a BAFTA.
Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) directed the original film. Let Me In, the English-language remake starring Kodi Smit Mcpheem, Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins, was directed by Matt Reeves.
Let The Right One In will join TNT’s other new horror genre series like a horror block from M. Night Shyamalan that includes a rebooted Tales From the Crypt.
A&E got the rights from for Let The Right One Infrom Hammer Films Productions, who produced the 2010 version, after a bidding war with Showtime.
The book was also adapted for the stage. Mike Cecchini saw it. It didn’t knock him out.
SOURCE: THR