{"id":8786,"date":"2010-04-06T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2010-04-06T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:17:43","slug":"yelchin-in-talks-for-horror-film-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/04\/yelchin-in-talks-for-horror-film-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelchin In Talks For Horror Film Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anton Yelchin<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans as the new Pavel Chekov, is in talks to star as the lead in the remake of a 1985 vampire movie.<\/p>\n<p>If the talks work out, Yelchin would take on the role of Charley Brewster in the remake of <em>Fright Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yelchin0405101.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8787\" title=\"Yelchin040510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yelchin0405101.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>In the original <em>Fright Night<\/em>, teenager and horror film fan Charley Brewster (<strong>William Ragsdale<\/strong>) is convinced that his new neighbor Jerry is a vampire, but no one believes him.<\/p>\n<p>A sequel was made in 1988, in which Regina, the sister of Jerry, is out for revenge, planning to turn Charlie into a vampire, so that his punishment will be eternal.<\/p>\n<p>The remake of <em>Fright Night<\/em> will keep the comedy and horror aspect of the original film, but update the special effects. The script will be penned by <strong>Marti Noxon<\/strong> (<em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel<\/em>) and it has been reported that <strong>Craig Gillespie<\/strong> (<em>Mr. Woodcock, Lars and the Real Girl<\/em>) will direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Yelchin, best-known to Star Trek fans as the new Pavel Chekov, is in talks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3142,2619],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-fright-night","tag-yelchin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}