Cloverfield Snippet

For those eagerly anticipating the follow up to 2007s Cloverfield and are downbeat about the lack of activity on it, we have a little light at the end of the subway tunnel. J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves are still very much intent on bringing the sequel on, just not right at this moment.

Speaking with MTV recently Reeves said; "It really isn't the moment for [the sequel] to go any further than it has, but it continues to be a priority for both of us," he continued "J.J. is very immersed in putting together Super 8. He's in pre-production and really, really passionately getting that together. And I'm passionately finishing Let Me In."

Reeves also revealed that Super 8 was in noway linked to Cloverfield, or any proposed sequel and that he was in the privileged position to 'know what J.J. [is] doing and it's amazing". So there you have it, straight from the mouth that matters. Just don't ask us what it all means.

Let Me In Trailer Arrives.

Following news from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo it seems only right to discuss Let Me In. In the last few days Comic Con played host to footage of yet another American adaptation of a Swedish thriller. This time it is Let the Right One In that has come under the treatment. In it's native Swedish guise; it was a simply beautiful, touching and haunting drama that transcended the recent flux of 'vampire' films.

Matt Reeve's American adaptation, it must be said from the trailer, shows itself to be respectful to the aesthetics and atmosphere of the original with the casting of Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit McPhee as the central leads appearing to be sound choices.

It is here we hit a nerve; is it right to remake a foreign subtitled/dubbed films for English speaking audiences. Does it represent a tedious retread of original creativity and production because English speaking audiences cannot commit to a film if it does not speak to them directly? Or is it simply that distraction and disconnection from the source material takes away the enjoyment of a foreign film?

If we were to harbour a conclusion it would be this; that in reality the truth is found some where in the sticky middle. Like the Englishmen who sits in a provincial tavern in France asking for egg, chips instead of Moules Mariniere; people like what they like and make no excuses for it.