It was announced at this year's Cannes Film Festival that director Neil Jordan would be making a long overdue return to the vampire sub-genre of horror movies that he helped to redefine with his now-classic 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire. Jordan's new movie, Byzantium — adapted from the play A Vampire Story by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe), who also wrote the screenplay — centers around a pair of vampires who move into a small British town and try to fit in.
At the time of the announcement, it was revealed that Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) and Saoirse Ronan (Hannah) would play Claire and Eleanor, the vampiric female leads in the movie. Now, more than three months later and just two months shy of the movie's expected start date, the male lead has been cast. According to Variety, Caleb Landry Jones, who recently portrayed the vocally-gifted mutant Banshee in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, has joined the cast as Frank, a young boy dying of leukemia who befriends Eleanor. more about Byzantium >> Posted 08.23.11 by BrentJS