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03-03-2010, 09:10 AM
The last time Tim Burton and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov got together to produce something, we got Shane Acker’s dystopian animation 9. For their next collaboration, the pair are working on an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Literary mash-ups are the new publishing sensation. Whether they’re anything other than a mildly amusing joke is up for debate. We’ve already had Pride and Prejudice And Zombies (David O. Russell is to direct with Natalie Portman starring) and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

Now it looks as if Seth Grahame-Smith looks is having Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter turned into a movie. Will John Wilkes Booth be worked into the unfolding drama in an attempt at some fantasy historical revisionism meets the horror genre? After all, Abe was shot down in a theatre and entered history as one of four US presidents to be assassinated.

Abraham Lincoln kicks off with the legendary US president watching his mother die at the hands – well, teeth – of the fanged fiends and swearing revenge. Smith’s tale weaves in historical facts about Lincoln’s ascension to the White House and his actions regarding the Civil War.

“Henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion,” Lincoln writes in his journal. “I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…”

No studio has picked up the rights to the film yet, but with Burton and Bekmambetov producing (even though neither of them is looking to direct the film), someone is bound to grab it soon.

Check out the trailer for the book -

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Angra
03-03-2010, 11:42 AM
It's a joke, right?


Looks like poo.
Caenxavier
03-03-2010, 11:48 AM
It's a joke, right?

I hope not. Sounds like something I would like to watch with some Jamaican imports.
Doc Faustus
03-03-2010, 12:27 PM
I have a novelette about a descendant of John Wilkes Booth battling zombie Lincolns coming in the next issue of the Magazine of Bizarro Fiction.
Caenxavier
03-03-2010, 01:37 PM
I have a novelette about a descendant of John Wilkes Booth battling zombie Lincolns coming in the next issue of the Magazine of Bizarro Fiction.

I blame you for my new love of Bizarro fiction by the way. Why did I ever read your blog.....
Doc Faustus
03-03-2010, 02:00 PM
I have no idea. My blog is awful. But, if you're starting to like Bizarro stuff, and you're looking for writing advice and to get to know people in the industry, come by www.bizarrocentral.com. You might meet Jeff Burk. If you're lucky.
Caenxavier
03-03-2010, 02:01 PM
I have no idea. My blog is awful. But, if you're starting to like Bizarro stuff, and you're looking for writing advice and to get to know people in the industry, come by www.bizarrocentral.com. You might meet Jeff Burk. If you're lucky.

Mine is awful too! My only post is about how my dogs ate a chapter of my story!
Doc Faustus
03-03-2010, 02:12 PM
You know nothing of poor blogging.

http://thegarrettcook.blogspot.com/2009/01/spam-box-q-and_27.html

And this:
http://thegarrettcook.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-must-be-true.html
And this:
http://thegarrettcook.blogspot.com/2008/12/blue-oyster-cult.html
And don't forget this:
http://thegarrettcook.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-resolution-diet-log-open.html

Maybe you have one post, but I have multiple posts of inferior quality, loaded with confusing content.
Caenxavier
03-03-2010, 03:23 PM
http://calenj.blogspot.com/

The only post so far, explaining why I havent posted any others. Fucking dogs.
Doc Faustus
03-03-2010, 06:14 PM
Well, you've had it two days.
Caenxavier
03-03-2010, 09:12 PM
Ive had this blog two days.

hee hee.
phantomstranger
10-04-2010, 04:19 PM
Fox Goes Vampire Hunting with Abraham Lincoln
Source: Variety
October 3, 2010


20th Century Fox has acquired the film rights for the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to be directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton.

The script for the 3D project was written by Grahame-Smith. The studio is planning a 2012 release.

The following is how publisher Grand Central Publishing describes the book:

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

Lionsgate previously picked up the film rights to the author's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which Natalie Portman is attached to star in.