Let The Right One In TV Pilot Casts Vampire Lead

19-year-old model-turned-actress Kristine Froseth (Rebel in the Rye, Prey) has landed the female lead in TNT's television adaptation of Let The Right One In, based on the best-selling 2004 novel of the same name by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist.

The show's synopsis (via Deadline):

Let the Right One In is an eerie drama about Henry, a young boy, long tormented by his classmates, who finds solace in a friendship with a charismatic vampire, Eli (Froseth), who appears to be near his age. Thin and pale, Eli's actual age is unknown. Lonely and friendless (for obvious reasons), Eli lands in an apartment building in Vermont, and soon begins a strange friendship with Henry, an equally lonely 16-year-old boy who has no idea what kind of creature he's dealing with.

The novel was previously adapted into two feature films: The award-winning 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson and starred Lina Leandersson as Eli, and the 2010 American-British remake, titled Let Me In, directed by Matt Reeves, and starred Chloë Grace Moretz as Eli.

Jeff Davis (Criminal Minds, Teen Wolf) wrote the script for the pilot and serves as executive producer with Marty Adelstein (Aquarius, Prison Break, Teen Wolf) and Becky Clements (Aquarius, Last Man Standing) of Tomorrow Studios and Simon Oakes (Women in Black, Let Me In) of Hammer Films. Carl Molinder, who produced the original screenplay, and Alex Brunner (Dark Places) also serve as executive producers. The pilot is being produced by Tomorrow Studios in association with Turner's Studio T, the in-house studio that owns and produces original series for TNT and TBS.

TNT's Let The Right One In will debut in 2017.