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"History prefers legends to men."
Embark on a journey to the past to discover the astonishing secret life of the 16th President of the United States and the real reason for the American Civil War.
your classroom history books got it all wrong >> Posted 10.23.12 by BrentJS -
After releasing a preview clip last week, Twentieth Century Fox is offering two new scenes from its Honest Abe–vampire mashup. Based on author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith's book of the same name, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter blends historical facts from Lincoln's (Benjamin Walker) life and career with details of the former President's secret attempts to rid the United States of the bloodsuckers plaguing the country.
The previous clip showed Lincoln and William Johnson (Anthony Mackie) taking a train trip to Gettysburg that had both men fighting vampires en route. While one of these new clips is also devoted to showing Lincoln fight vampires, the first looks at Lincoln's early tutelage under his fanged mentor Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper), who helps Lincoln perfect his ax-wielding skills.
watch the clips >> Posted 06.19.12 by Ryan -
Back in 2008, comic book adaptation Wanted was a runaway success, earning an unexpected $341 million worldwide. Soon after, reports pointed to a Wanted trilogy, with various opinions offered about what to do about Angelina Jolie's character, Fox, who sadly didn't survive the original movie. Director Timur Bekmambetov thought he could bring Fox back from the dead, but Jolie didn't want to return, which put the sequel on hold. Comic book co-creator Mark Millar suggested moving on without Jolie, which is where the sequel essentially stood until Universal brought in Wanted screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas to pen a sequel last September.
Since then, there's been no news of a potential Wanted 2, perhaps because the studio or Bekmambetov (or both) weren't happy with the direction of the sequel's story. However, in a recent interview with The Playlist, Bekmambetov explained that he finally figured out what he wanted to do next.
what's in store with Wanted 2? >> Posted 06.18.12 by Ryan -
The next few months will see a steady influx of comic book adaptations opening in theaters, including The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
OK, so maybe Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter isn't exactly based on a comic book, but rather the best-selling novel by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the upcoming Dark Shadows). Still, by changing the former US President's history to include vampires, Lincoln's life has been essentially transformed into that of a superhero's comic book mythology, one that leads a double life. By day, Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) helps run the country, and by night, he tries to vanquish the world from its hidden, bloodsucking threat. In the latest featurette, Grahame-Smith, along with producer Tim Burton and director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), makes the case that Lincoln isn't too different from Batman, including having his own cape, mask, and utility belt.
watch the featurette >> Posted 05.04.12 by Ryan -
Mash-up author Seth Grahame-Smith isn't finished writing books (his third novel, Unholy Night, will be published in April), but he's been spending plenty of time in Hollywood. Along with working as a screenwriter for director Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, Grahame-Smith is adapting his second best-selling novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Blending Lincoln's actual history with vampires (or finally revealing Lincoln's actual vampire history, depending on how you want to look at it), Grahame-Smith's book took a more scholarly approach, but as the writer told SlashFilm in a recent interview, the movie version became more action-oriented once director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) got involved.
what is happening with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? >> Posted 03.28.12 by Ryan -
After releasing an endless stream of new photos, Twentieth Century Fox has finally released the teaser trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Based on the novel by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter follows the 16th President of the United States from the age of 19 until his death — only with Honest Abe having to deal with a vampire threat.
Most of the recent photos were taken from a scene where Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) heads to Louisiana to rescue his friend William Johnson (Anthony Mackie) from a cabal of Southern vampires, a scene which borrows from Lincoln's legitimate history but with a vampire twist. It explains why Mackie had previously described the movie as "a recontextualization of history". The newly-released trailer is more befitting of producer Simon Kinberg's description of Lincoln "hacking people's heads off and killing vampires left and right."
watch the trailer >> Posted 02.13.12 by Ryan -
Two movies about the late President Abraham Linocoln will be released next year — one is a biopic about Lincoln's last four months in office, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team of Rivals and directed by Steven Spielberg; the other is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, also based on a best-selling book, but this time by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith and directed by Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov. While both are ostensibly about our nation's history, the latter posits Lincoln as a President bent on abolishing slavery and any and all vampires, including the one that killed his mother. It's a version of history, anyway.
IGN has released two new posters for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which see the Great Emancipator (played by Benjamin Walker) resting after he's taken an ax to vampires. Vanquishing the undead and running a country takes its toll, it seems.
see the full posters >> Posted 12.16.11 by Ryan -
With the holiday movie season crowded with Oscar hopefuls (War Horse, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), kids' movies (The Adventures of Tintin, Alvin and the Chipmunks 3) and action-adventure spectacles (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Summit Entertainment wants to make sure that you don't forget about The Darkest Hour, the studio's little 3D alien invasion movie that opens on Christmas Day.
In the last couple of days, Summit has released more than two dozen new still images, several new pieces of concept art and two new preview clips from the Timur Bekmambetov-produced (Wanted, Day Watch) sci-fi thriller that finds Emile Hirsch as an American tourist in Moscow who tries to lead a group of survivors against invisible aliens made up of "electricity and electromagnetism."
see the new images and watch the preview clips >> Posted 12.15.11 by BrentJS -
Wanted impressed at the box office when it first opened, so much so that there was instantly talk of turning the movie into a trilogy. That was in 2008.
Three years later, and with Angelina Jolie admitting that she is not interested in having her character brought back from the dead, progress has slowed. In April, James McAvoy, who played office-worker-turned-assassin Wesley, said that he didn't think a sequel was likely, while, a year ago, comic book co-creator Mark Millar concurred, admitting that "if it happens, great" but that "if it doesn’t, I’m not bothered." Those aren't words that get fans confident for a Wanted 2, but now they can be.
details on Wanted 2 >> Posted 09.28.11 by Ryan -
Now that Dimension Films finally has a release date for Apollo 18 that it appears to be sticking to, the studio has started to actively promote the movie, with TV spots airing in heavy rotatation and the release of preview clips online. A "found-footage" sci-fi horror movie produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), Apollo 18 is based on the conspiracy theory that NASA ended the Apollo mission because it found...something...on the moon. A preview clip from the movie released last week showed that the Apollo 18 astronauts (played by Lloyd Owen and Warren Christie) found footprints on the moon that were not made by U.S. astronauts. Now, two new preview clips have been released that further the mystery by showing that the astronauts found more than just footprints.
watch the new preview clips >> Posted 08.29.11 by BrentJS