Vlad the Impaler

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Summit Entertainment just can't jump off the vampire bandwagon.

In addition to their popular adaptations of the Twlight franchise, word's hitting today that the company is partnering with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment to produce a period film about Vlad the Impaler, the famous real-world inspiration for the legendary Dracula.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, actor Charlie Hunnam has scripted Vlad, a "visually edgy and radical period movie."

Director/photographer Anthony Mandler has been approached to direct the project, having offered up a promo reel that apparently impressed the brass. No word yet on casting or specific plot details, but you can bet that we'll see some decapitated heads hoisted on giant, bloody pikes.

At least, we hope.

More on the film as things develop.

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Screenwriter Charlie Hunnam (and star of "Sons of Anarchy") revealed to Entertainment Weekly that his script for Vlad has NO vampires in it. Instead, the feature will focus on the real-life story of Vlad the Impaler that inspired Bram Stoker.

"As the script stands now, we don’t touch on vampirism," he reveals to EW. "That was my one non-negotiable area when we were developing it, and thankfully, nobody suggested that we should delve into it at the end. But you can clearly see the things that Bram Stoker took…. Vlad was such a brutal man, and the trick is to make him sympathetic."

Announced earlier this week, Anthony Mandler will be directing the film for Summit Entertainment.