President by day, hunter by night. That's the tagline for Timur Bekmambetov's upcoming supernatural thriller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's popular novel. 20th Century Fox has revealed a new international poster and some behind-the-scene action from June 22 release courtesy of MTV Movies. Check out the poster by clicking the above image and watch the video player down below.
The horror thriller stars Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Jimmi Simpson and Robin McLeavy. Director Timur Bekmambetov led the production, based on a screenplay by original author Grahame-Smith.
Plot Concept: 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
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I am so pumped o see this movie. Read the book and loved it and since the author is also writing the screenplay I think this will be much like the book.. Wondering what Mackie is playing - probably a combination of characters - cause there were not me brothas in the book with importance.
At last an historically accurate portrayal of Lincoln! On this MLK day they need to announce a "Martin Luther King Conquers the Martians!" movie ;-)
I can't stop laughing every single time I see this movie's clips, ads, etc. It seems so incredibly silly to the point of being offensive. I actually burst out laughing when I saw Lincoln. Not to mention, his trusty side kick. Whatever.
monkeyfoot: You got a MLK zinger in there before I could. : )
all in GLORIOUS 3-D.
Monkeyfoot: MLK never conquered the Martians, but he did make it OK for tweens to love sparkling vampires.
Not sparkly vampires in this book, just good, bloody R rated fun. If it doesn't stray far from the source, it should be wicked awesome.
InnerSanctum you should read the book, it's very well done with a lot of history so it makes it more believable than the concept sounds. I'm excited about the movie.
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