Marti Noxon to write "Fright Night" remake

By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Can you dispatch a vampire with a martini and cigarette smoke?

"Mad Men" writer-producer Marti Noxon has been hired to write DreamWorks Studios' revamp of the 1985 horror comedy "Fright Night."

Noxon is no stranger to fangs and stakes: Before her work on AMC's "Mad Men," she was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel."

The original "Fright" 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.

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

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)