The UK tour of the play Let The Right One In, penned by Jack Thorne, has been cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
BBC News reports that the production, based on the best-selling Swedish novel and hit film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, was due to begin its UK tour in October 2025 and run until April of next year. This follows its previous successful run in Manchester.
However, this weekend it quotes a spokesperson saying: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the UK tour of Let the Right One In is no longer able to proceed as planned.”
The film of Let The Right One In was released in 2008 in its original Swedish. Its success inspired a US version to be made in 2010 starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the couple of solitary teenagers – one a vampire – who strike up an unlikely but soothing friendship.
Thorne was the co-creator of Adolescence, the four-part Netflix hit fictional drama about a family broken when their teenage son is charged with the stabbing of a schoolmate. The drama, with each episode filmed in a single shot, was co-created by Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) who also stars.
Thorne also wrote Toxic Town, also streamed by Netflix, telling the real-life story of the Corby case that occurred in the 1980s and ‘90s, when numerous children were born with birth defects after a toxic waste site was established near the town in Northamptonshire, UK.
The play of Let The Right One In originally debuted in 2013. Thorne collaborated with producer John Tiffany OBE, heralding a creative partnership that culminated in bringing to stage Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in 2016.