Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to Get a Big-Screen Adaptation
Posted 03.04.10 by Ryan
It seems like any book author Seth Grahame-Smith touches becomes a movie. Grahame-Smith's debut novel, the horror and classic literature Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, was a huge success and Lionsgate is already adapting the novel into a movie starring Natalie Portman as a zombie-slaying Elizabeth Bennett. Grahame-Smith's latest book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer, experienced an even faster turnaround, with Deadline Hollywood reporting that directors Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are looking to turn the book into a movie the same day the novel was released.
Both Burton and Bekmembetov will serve as producers of the movie, which will follow Lincoln after he realizes his mother was killed by vampires and sets out to destroy them and their slave-owning helpers. Burton and Bekamabetov are both fans of the bloodsucking genre, with Burton planning to adapt the TV series Dark Shadows into a feature and Bekamabetov tackling vampires previously in Night Watch and Day Watch. The directors optioned the book with their own money and will shop the project to a studio.
With the book just released, few have been able to read the book, but a trailer for it can be seen below, which gives a little taste as to what the movie version will be like.