Matt Reeves + Eight O’ Clock in the Morning = They Live?

Don’t get too pissy here just yet. Let Me In‘s director, Matt Reeves isn’t gearing up for Cloverfield 2 anytime soon, as Deadline is reporting the director is adapting Eight O’ Clock in the Morning from author Ray Nelson for his next film. Hardcore John Carpenter fans will remember Nelson’s story served as a basis for his They Live from 1988, but this film won’t be a direct remake of the fan favorite Carpenter film.

Instead, it will go back to Nelson’s story, which was loosely used anyway by Carpenter, and follow George Nada, a man who, after attending a hypnosis act, accidentally obeys the command to “awaken” on a broader level, suddenly finding himself privy to a secret alien invasion that is happening right in front of the entire world, but that only he can see. The story was first published in 1963.

“Carpenter took a satirical view of the material,” Reeves is quoted as saying, “and the larger political implication that we’re being controlled. I am very drawn to the emotional side, the nightmare experience with the paranoia of Invasion of the Body Snatchers or a Roman Polanski-style film.” No time frame yet for release, but Reeves has begun working on the screenplay.

Universal is producing.

Jon Peters

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