Marti Noxon to pen 'Fright Night' redo

1985 comedy-horror was written, directed by Tom Holland

By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

Nov 11, 2009, 11:00 PM ET

Can you dispatch a vampire with a martini and cigarette smoke?

"Mad Men" writer-producer Marti Noxon has been hired to pen DreamWorks Studios' revamp of the 1985 horror comedy "Fright Night." Before her work on AMC's "Mad Men," Noxon was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," so fangs and stakes are in her blood.

Producers Michael De Luca, Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig set up the "Fright" project in May. DreamWorks co-president of production Mark Sourian is overseeing for the studio.

The original "Fright," released in 1985, was written and directed by Tom Holland and starred Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and William Ragsdale. Ragsdale played a teenager who discovers his neighbors are vampires.

The new version will keep the comedy-horror tone while modernizing the effects.

The WME-repped Noxon also has been a writer-producer on ABC's "Private Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy" and Fox's "Prison Break."

Marti Noxon to pen 'Fright Night' redo

1985 comedy-horror was written, directed by Tom Holland

By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

Nov 11, 2009, 11:00 PM ET