Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel Let the Right One In was adapted into a film in 2008 and was then remade for US audiences in 2010 as Let Me In. Now, in 2016, there is a TV version coming from TNT that’s being developed by Jeff Davis, the creator of “Teen Wolf” and “Criminal Minds”.
It’s been announced that “Doctor Who” and “Happy Valley” director Euros Lyn has been locked to directed the pilot of the show, according to Deadline.
““Let The Right One In” is an eerie drama about a young boy, long tormented by his classmates, who finds solace in a friendship with a charismatic female vampire who appears to be near his age. The vampire settles into the boy’s small Vermont town with her mysterious caretaker, just as a series of bizarre murders begins attracting the attention of law enforcement.”
Davis penned the pilot and will serve as an executive producer with Marty Adelstein (“Aquarius,” “Prison Break,” “Teen Wolf”) and Becky Clements (“Aquarius,” “Last Man Standing”) of Tomorrow Studios, plus Simon Oakes (“Women in Black,” “Let Me In”) of Hammer Films, Carl Molinder who produced the original screenplay and Alex Brunner (“Dark Places”). Turner’s in-house studio, Studio T, will co-produce with Tomorrow Studios.
