What do you do when you’re an in-demand director of an acclaimed American remake of a neo-classic Swedish vampire flick? If you’re Matt Reeves, helmer of Let Me In (based on the almost universally-beloved Let The Right One In), you let the hype die down a little and work on your passion project. What Reeves won’t be doing is making Cloverfield 2 any time soon. Reeves tells The Playlist:
“Well, ‘Cloverfield 2’ we haven’t really decided what that would be yet,” Reeves told us. “So that won’t be next.”
And, since we’re on the subject, Reeves told BloodyDisgusting [via GeekTyrant.com]:
“Unfortunately, I don’t have any [news]. We’re just…you know, somebody was saying to me that I had said something about, ‘well, we’re gonna try and get the band back together.’ And the band is still not back together, we’re just still talking about getting back together. But we haven’t really had a chance to talk about it. I mean, J.J. is eding ‘Super 8’ right now, he’s got a very, very intense schedule right now that he’s working on. And Drew [Goddard] is writing Steven Spielberg’s next movie, I think, after the Abraham Lincoln film. He’s doing ‘Robopocalypse’. So everybody’s very, very busy. But I’m sure we’ll get together one of these days and sort of bounce it around until we come up with something that we get excited about. And if we don’t, then we won’t make it.”
Reeves’s name has swirled around a bunch of recent big studio projects – Superman, Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, The Wolverine, but those gigs went to other directors. He could be on a theoretical shortlist to take on Star Trek 2, since J.J. Abrams might be waffling about returning to Starfleet.
Mostly, though, Reeves is trying to get a dream project of his off the ground. The Invisible Woman is a “Hitchcockian” period drama taking up space in the director’s brain as he takes offers and plays it cool [from The Playlist]:
“But ‘Invisible Woman’ I’m trying really hard to pull together. And I’m also reading a lot of scripts. One of the great things about the reception of [‘Let Me In’] is that there are a lot of interesting projects being sent my way. So I’m reading stuff and hopefully in the next couple of months I’ll choose exactly what I’m going to do and probably try and find a way to marry, with the schedule, a way to do ‘The Invisible Woman’ as well. So that’s what I would love to do.”
So there are no more giant monsters on the horizon. That’s too bad, but if he makes more films like Let Me In, we’ll all be better for it.
What do you think Reeves will do next? Did you like Let Me In?