DreamWorks may have found a director for its Fright Night revamp.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that several directors were being considered for the high priority project and that one appears to have been chosen: Craig Gillespie. Sources told the Times that the studio has begun negotiations with Gillespie, whose most famous film to date is the whimsical Lars and the Real Girl, in which a man (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a Real Doll.

Gillespie also helmed the obnoxious, dysfunctional-family flick, Mr. Woodcock, starring Billy Bob Thornton. The Times says he has a relationship with DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg via the Showtime series, The United States of Tara, on which Gillespie has served as director and producer.

The original Fright Night was released in 1985, and directed by Tom Holland. It stars Chris Sarandon, Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale and Roddy McDowell and tells the story of a horror fan who suspects his new neighbours of being vampires.

It was a surprise box office hit and spawned a novelisation, a comic book series and a sequel, Fright Night Part II, in 1988. The second film was considerably less successful.

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