Showtime is moving forward with a pilot inspired by the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel Let the Right One In (buy it HERE), which previously inspired a 2008 Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson (watch that HERE) and a 2010 English-language film directed by Matt Reeves (watch that one HERE). We've previously heard that Demián Bichir and Anika Noni Rose have been cast, and now it's being reported that Grace Gummer of Mr. Robot has signed on to play a character who will be a series regular. If Let the Right One In is ordered to series.
Directed by Seith Mann from a script by showrunner Andrew Hinderaker, this take on Let the Right One In centers on
Mark (Bichir) and his 12-year-old daughter, whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive.
Rose will be playing Mark's next door neighbor, who happens to be a homicide detective.
Gummer's character is Claire, "the heiress of a pharmaceutical empire and is a brilliant scientist who turned down the family’s billion-dollar business to pursue a humbler, nobler career in disease research. But her life gets turned upside down when her estranged, ailing father summons her home and reveals a terrible secret." And that description is a huge indication of how the original story is being expanded to sustain a series.
This Let the Right One In is being described as "an elevated genre drama, which is turning a naturalistic lens on human frailty, strength and compassion".
Hinderaker is executive producing the pilot with Mann and Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements for Tomorrow Studios, a partnership between Adelstein and ITV Studios. If the show receives a series order, Bichir will receive a producer credit on the series.