Vampires are so hot right now they are practically burning up in the breaking dawn – or at least sparkling harmlessly with their shirts off.
Matt Reeves is well aware of this, having recently remade Let The Right One In for American subtitle-phobes (you loved it, I didn’t), and is apparently eager to tap that vein once more.
Reeves will direct The Passage, a big screen adaptation of Justin Cronin novel about an experiment gone bitingly wrong. Fox 2000 has held the rites since 2007, only now entrusting the production to Reeves and producer Scott Free for what looks set to be the 28 Days Later of vampire movies. 30 Days of Night, then.
Refreshingly devoid of a mumblesome central romance, The Passage takes place in a world where cancer is cured by the subjection of patients to bat bites. When the government contractually fluff things up royally, civilization is carried off to the brink while indestructible, telepathic vampire set about suing the Cullen family for libel.
The Passage joins 8 O’Clock in the Morning on Reeves’ to-do list, the order in which the director ushers the two properties into production depending on whether he wakes up in vampire mode, or aliens.
Source: Deadline
