Like the title suggests the book follows Lincoln from his childhood to the time of his assassination and is told through a “secret diary” that Lincoln kept. SMALL SPOILER the book starts off with an eleven year old Lincoln who learns from his father that vampires are in fact real and that they are responsible for the death of his mother. Angered by this Young Lincoln vows to kill as many vampires as he can.
But enough about the book and about the film adaptation…
Not even a year after the book was released 20th Century Fox picked up the movie rights to the book but don’t worry about to many things varying from the book to the film because book author Grahame-Smith has been hired on to write the script and with Tim Burton producing the film. Although Burton won’t be directing this film (majorly because of scheduling conflicts with Dark Shadow, also being written by Grahame-Smith) and the directing chair went to Timur Bekmambetov known for directing Wanted and Night/Day Watch.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter has a decent cast that should prove to be the best choice, for if it was weighted down with an A list cast I’m sure the specialness of the movie would have been overlooked.
Staring as
Abraham Lincoln is Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers)
Vampire Henry Sturgess is being played by Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger)
May Todd Lincoln will be played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
And playing lead baddy Adam is Fufus Sewell (A Knight’s Tale)
Although no trailer has been released yet some images have been released.
Walker as Lincoln addressing the nation (I assume)
Walker and Bekmambetov
Walker and Cooper on set.
And from these I think that this movie will be a cult classic but like most cult classics it won’t do very well in theatre. And yet I know I’ll be there opening weekend to see it.
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