Deadline got the scoop this week that Cloverfield director, Matt Reeves, is planning an adaptation of the short story 8 O' Clock In The Morning, over at Universal. If the name sounds familiar, it's because it too was the basis for John Carpenter's 1988 cheese-classic, They Live. The story tells of a man whom awakes one morning to the realization that aliens are controlling society through subliminal messaging and advertisement. Reeves spoke briefly with Deadline saying, "I saw an opportunity to do a movie that was very point-of-view driven, a psychological science fiction thriller that explores this guy's nightmare. There could be a desperate love story at the center of this. Carpenter took a satirical view of the material 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". I've yet to see the director's latest effort, Let Me In (also a remake, albeit a shot-for-shot one), but the idea of an edgier, paranoid They Live would be great. Pity we won't see the glasses...or a 6 minute fist fight.
