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http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/40342/chris-sarandon-fright-night-remake?utm_source=scribol&utm_medium=exchange&utm_campaign=scribol

Ah, it's almost a new year so you know what that means? Remake time! Here is the cast list for the new Fright Night, which is in post production now.

Colin Ferrel - Jerry Dandridge
David Tennant - Peter Vincent
Christopher Mintz-Plasse - "Evil" Ed Thompson
Anton Yelchin - Charley Brewster
Imogen Poots - Amy Peterson

I don't know who those last two people are at all. Anyways, I'd agree that I'm getting tired of people saying "Wah, they be raping mah childhoods!" about every remake and reboot but goddammit...this is my Fright Night. Discuss.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

It seems that they have changed the film a bit by the looks of things. Here's something from wikipedia:

Quote:

Charlie (Anton Yelchin) is a teen convinced that his new neighbor (Colin Farrell) is a vampire. Toni Collette plays the teen's disbelieving mom, who falls under the vampire's spell.

Peter Vincent (David Tennant) is a Las Vegas magician whose show revolves around horror-movie imagery. Vincent claims to be a vampire expert, but when the teen turns to him for assistance, he's less than helpful.

Evil Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is Charlie's friend who feels slighted that Charlie has left his nerdy past behind and thus joins the vampire's coven.[4]

It's now his mother who is under the spell and not his girlfriend, i don't see why she's a character even in it now and the vampire expert had a "camp" 50s tv show which showed old horror films. Not that these things are going to make much difference but it's interesting to see.

Posted: Dec 28 2010 12:44 pm

Didn't Anton Yelchin play Chekhov in the new Star Trek movie? I think he's been in some other stuff too. I want to say Charlie Bartlett, but I'm probably wrong. This could either go really well, or really bad. Fright Night is fairly near and dear to my heart, but I try to remain open to the possibility of a good (or better than the original) remake. I've seen some. Don't remember which ones, but my memory sucks anyhow.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I remember him now, he was Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation.

Posted: Dec 28 2010 12:55 pm

I'd rather see a Night of the Creeps remake. But David Tennant = win.

Posted: Dec 28 2010 01:52 pm

Imogen Poots may be the most awesome name ever.

Posted: Dec 28 2010 01:57 pm

Let's she if she can do a better job in the role than Amanda Bearse did.

Recognize that name?

That's right, in the original Fright Night, Amy Peterson was played by the actress who would later go on to play Marcy Darcy on Married With Children!

Posted: Dec 28 2010 02:28 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

David Tennant = win.

Ditto.

Seeing McLovin and Tennant in the same movie's castlist reminded me that I had heard about this sometime ago, but I wasn't sure if it would come out (like the aborted Good Omens with Robin Williams and Johnny Depp).

My one worry is if Tennant has to do an American accent:

Posted: Dec 29 2010 01:12 am

Knyte wrote:

Let's she if she can do a better job in the role than Amanda Bearse did.

Recognize that name?

That's right, in the original Fright Night, Amy Peterson was played by the actress who would later go on to play Marcy Darcy on Married With Children!

I remember Amanda Bearse (how do you pronounce that - like "bearsss, like da bearsss" or bear-see), who is a lesbian.

Know who else is a lesbian now? Kelly McGillis. Witness just got 10x hotter.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

I like david tennant but that accent is very enunciatey.Having said that I see no reason for him to use an American accent in the movie.

Posted: Dec 29 2010 01:33 am

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Imogen Poots may be the most awesome name ever.

that's exactly what I was thinking Cool

Posted: May 11 2011 07:13 am

And here is what David Tennant will look like:

Posted: Jun 08 2011 12:09 pm

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Well tennant looks pretty badass in this

Posted: Jun 08 2011 06:26 pm

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

Well Tennant looks pretty pants-wettingly hilarious in this

Fixed that for you Cool

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Well this comes out soon so I thought I'd bump this. Does anyone plan on seeing it? I was pissed about it at first, but I'll probably check it out just to do it.

Posted: Aug 06 2011 12:30 am

joshwoodzy wrote:

Well this comes out soon so I thought I'd bump this. Does anyone plan on seeing it? I was pissed about it at first, but I'll probably check it out just to do it.

same here