Christopher Mintz-Plasse and David Tennant have accepted a role in the remake of Fright Night. Mintz-Plasse and Tennant will join the already on-board Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster, the lead role and Colin Farrell's vampire Jerry. Heat Blog Vision reports that Mintz-Plasse will be fitting in the role of 'Evil' Ed Thompson, the best friend of Charlie, who later becomes the vampire freak of Jerry. David Tennant on the meanwhile also been cast to take the role of Peter Vincnent.
Other casts in the movie include Toni Collette as Charlie's disbelieving mom. Tom Holland’s 1985 original saw William Ragsdale as Charlie, a horror-obsessed teenager who discovers that a vampire named Jerry (Chris Sarandon) has moved into the house next door. But despite his knowledge of vampire lore from the movies, Charlie needs a little help when it comes to fighting off the charming undead bastard.
It has been long planned after all that the remake is possible. Back in May 2009, DreamWorks chose to remake this vampire horror film with only recently, Craig Gillespie was selected to the director seat while Steven Spielberg will be producing it. Martin Noxon, whose works on Buffy TV veteran will do the script for the remake.
SOURCE: Heat Blog Vision