First Look at Showtime's Let the Right One In Vampire Series

It is an ambitious endeavor to serialize any vampire-related lore for television, and the take on Let the Right One In looks up for the challenge. In the first images released exclusively on Entertainment Weekly, we get our first look at the upcoming series, which is based on the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel that was adapted into two films by Tomas Alfredson.

Selena: The Series star Madison Taylor Baez plays the child vampire Eleanor in her first decade as an undead person under the protection of her father. The show aims to hit the same themes as the movies, but will switch up the original story. The original film is about a relationship between a boy and a girl who are both vampire's. There is a small relationship between the vampire and her adult caretakers in that film. The film inspired a story about a girl who has been a vampire for a decade. She has been taken care of by her father, who keeps her alive, who keeps them ahead of the law, and who has kept hope alive for both of them that one day they will find a cure and this won't be her life forever.

The departure sets it apart from its source material and almost seems like an original story idea centered on family. Bichir said that the story was about a father and daughter who had to overcome many obstacles in order to survive. Mark's daughter has been diagnosed with a very, very strange and terrible disease, however you want to call it. The story goes beyond any vampire story. This is about a lot of other things. It's about how hard it is to fit in in any society.

If it doesn't look like or follow the same story, should it be considered let the right one in?

It shares the same focus on the friendship between two kids. Naomi Cole is a cop who befriends Eleanor when she becomes a neighbor. It was important to me to capture the spirit of the film and for the show to be a love letter to it. A father and daughter are moving next door to a boy who is being bullied. The friendship of the two vampire friends is precarious because of the fact that the mother of one of them is a murder detective.

Grace Gummer and eljko Ivanek are two of the actors in the film Let the Right One In. This fall, it's on the show.

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