LET ME IN’s Matt Reeves has signed on at Universal Pictures to write and direct a feature based on the Ray Nelson short story “8 O’Clock in the Morning,” which John Carpenter loosely adapted into his 1988 film THEY LIVE.

According to Deadline, the project isn’t considered a remake. Nelson’s story concerns a man who wakes up one morning with the realization that we’re surrounded by the presence of aliens that are controlling society. In Carpenter’s film, wearing special glasses allowed you to see the extraterrestrials, but that won’t be part of Reeves’ movie.

"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," Reeves tells the site. "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."

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