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Plenty of people are miffed that Overture Films is even making a new version of Let the Right One In roughly a year after the Swedish film made a big impact on critics and arthouse crowds. Of course, the film didn't really register with mainstream audiences, so Overture picked up the rights to the novel and is giving it an English language once-over in hopes of attracting more than a few hundred thousand filled seats.

Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is directing the near-immediate remake, now called Let Me In, and filming began on Monday in Albuquerque. That's one of the things I'm encouraged by with this update, actually. By moving it from the dead of winter to possibly another kind of desolation, Reeves invites a new kind of atmosphere to his film, and that can impact everything from cinematography to tone to character.

There's no guarantee of that, and since New Mexico has such advantageous tax cuts for film productions, it could be that it's just cheaper and no other real thought has been given to the location. But I hope Reeves is using the landscape in and around Albuquerque to inform the film a little bit.

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