Thoughts on the Let the Right One In remake

So IGN has an article up about the cast for the remake of Let The Right One In, which is surprising because I didn't even know they were doing a remake. Although I haven't seen the movie yet, I've read (and loved) the book it's based on.

The rampant pessmism and gnashing of teeth that accompanies any announcement of a big-budget remake/adaption of anything always annoys me, as there are multiple major exceptions to the attitude that Hollywood ruins everything with it's vile attempts to make money (The Ring is, in my opinion, far to superior the original Japanese Ring). So I'm going to try and treat this fairly and not jump to conclusions.

I'm not familiar with either of the actors they've chosen to portray the movie's versions of Oskar and Eli, so I can't really comment on that. What I can comment on is the names chosen for the characters: Owen and Abby. I really thought they'd just change Oskar to Oscar. Maybe it sounds too old fashioned or something?

Abby for Eli is a bit.... iffy. I always thought the name Eli has a kind of timeless quality to it- you could just as easily imagine it applied to a 12 year old girl as you could to an immortal vampire. Abby on the other hand comes across as kind of childish. I don't really get why this one needs changing anyway- Eli obviously isn't a very common girl's name in America, but it wouldn't seem that wierd or out of place, and could enhance the character's mystique.

The location for casting- New Mexico- also causes me a bit of alarm since it's a far cry from the frigid location of the book and original movie. I'm not one of these fans who insist nothing can ever be changed so I won't boycott the movie if they decide to ditch the snowy locales, but I always liked the setting of the book.

The only detail about the movie that I'm completely not liking is the title- the producers have for some reason decided to go with "Let Me In", the ininspired moniker that the book was laboured with in America. Okay, let's face it, Let The Right One In doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but it sounds bad-ass. Let Me In sounds like the title to a cheesy slasher flick.

EDIT: Okay, I've done some digging around and some new details have come to light.

According to this page this movie isn't actually a remake the of the Swedish film- it's another adaptation of the book. I'm prepared to view it as such as long as it differs in some signficant way from the first movie. I'm guessing most people aren't going to realise this, however.

Also:

This isn't actually a theatrical poster, but rather a mock-up used to sell the film to studios. I guess I was way off-base about there being no snow in the movie, apparently New Mexico is just one filming location among many.

It's a pretty cool poster. I can't help but notice that "Abby" looks extremely similar to how Eli did in the Swedish version. Even her clothes are similar, which makes me somewhat suspicious of the claim that this is a readaptation, since Eli's initial clothes in the movie were different from what she was wearing in the book.