But 20th Century Fox seems eager to get into the business Benjamin Walker. Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) was one of the lesser known names on the list – Walker, Adrien Brody, Timothy Olyphant, Josh Lucas, James D’Arcy, Oliver Jackson-Cohen – the test screen for the lead role in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Walker was the first young actor cast as a student in the X-Men: First Class before being abandoned to reprise his role in the Broadway musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. In retrospect, that iconoclastic role of president was the perfect preparation for anchoring Fox tentpole summer: Variety reports Walker has closed a deal to star in Abraham Lincoln.
Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will direct and co-produced with Tim Burton and Jim Lemley (9). Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the book and the screenplay adaptation. Hit the jump for an official synopsis of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, scheduled for release June 22, 2012.
Indiana, 1818. She has been attacked by something that old called “milk sickness.”Moonlight falls through the dense forests surrounding a one-room hut, where a nine year old Abraham Lincoln was kneeling by the bedside of her mother’s suffering.
“My baby …- whispers before he died.
Only later the match knowing that affliction Abe death of his mother was actually the work of a vampire.
And this domain will have a single goal. I will become a master of the mind and body. When the truth is known the young Lincoln, he wrote in his diary, “as of now my life will be a rigorous study and devotion. .. “Equipped with his legendary stature, strength and skill with the ax, Abe embarks on a journey of revenge that will take you all the way to the White House.
As Abraham Lincoln is widely praised for saving a Union and the liberation of millions of slaves, his courageous fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith ran into The Secret Diary of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first person to live to set eyes on him in more than 140 years.
Using the magazine as his guide and writing style in the great biography of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the history of the true life of our greatest president for the first time while revealing the story behind Civil War and the discovery of the vampire role in the birth, growth, and near death of our nation. [Amazon]
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