Matt Reeves Chosen To Direct The Twilight Zone

@MovieMaster The list was from Variety (who's usually VERY reliable), so it was probably legit. Reeves must've been a last minute choice.

@PaulRom- hmm, Matt Reeves is cool, but i would've liked to see Christopher Nolan's take on The Twilight Zone. Atleast we didn't get Michael Bay :P

I wish the actually use a list of other directors to direct each segment like in the first Twilight zone movie with Joe Dante,John Landis,Steven Spielberg and George Miller. AND that movie was NEAT. They should use JJ Abrams or some kind of director who have worked on science fiction before. AND use good episodes from the show.

Whoever they cast better have a no helicopters clause in their contract!

Please do not desecrate the Twilight Zone by turning it into an action movie. Do not get me wrong, action flicks are cool, but it would not work with Rod Serling's creation.

@Tainted87 Dude(assuming you are a dude), Chloe Morentz IS a transexual vampire. They weren't even subtle about it. You just revealed that you didn't watch the movie. Just got one look at the trailer and assumed something.

@dbatman
Right.... so....
I watched it. It started out with promise, following a character from the book who wasn't in the Swedish movie. Then "Håkan" jumps out the hospital window and DIES, and I understood that this wasn't going to show us anything new.

You know what he does in the book? Well you see, Eli turns him (not intentionally) while feeding from him in that hospital scene. He falls out the window, is assumed dead. He comes back to "life" completely deformed from the acid spill AND the fall, kills the mortician, and the biggest manhunt in the area ensues. After days, he returns to Eli with the intent to rape her, but she manages to get away with assistance from the sun and a blanket. Håkan stumbles upon Tommy, the detective's fiance's son while he is getting high in a secret basement. The detective finds Tommy standing over him, having beaten the vampire's head apart.

I went into the movie hoping this would happen with the respective characters. It didn't. Instead, it decided to incorporate the detective into Lacke's role from the book and movie, without the emotional investment, without his drinking buddies, and without any real interest in this character. In the book, the detective lives, and never has any encounter that would lead anyone to think otherwise. In Let Me In, rather than Lacke (for those who don't know, Lacke would be the boyfriend of the woman who "Abby" feeds from and later burns up in the hospital), it is the detective who fills in for that death scene.

@Tainted87 okay that was uncalled for. sorry dude

Not the worst choice but J.J. Abrams would have been better. He already said he loved the series growing up so we know he would be faithful to the original series. Plus hes great at getting the nostalgic feeling of a classic sci-fi film which is exactly what this franchise needs right now. Please reconsider Warner Bros.

Nothing will ever be as good as the original Rod Sterling Twilight Zone television series. I don't really know much about Matt Reeves but I wish that this had been placed in the hands of either Tim Burton or J.J. Abrams.