Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker is headed back to the White House in another presidential role, this time on the big screen. Walker has nabbed the lead in the upcoming 3D project Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, adapted from the Seth Grahame-Smith novel of the same name. Grahame-Smith, who also penned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, will adapt the screenplay and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Day Watch) is set to direct.
In Grahame-Smith’s novel, a young Abraham Lincoln’s watches his mother die of "milk sickness," only to discover later that her affliction was actually caused by vampires. Thus begins the “real” story of Honest Abe, which revolves around the ax-wielding, vampire-slaying president's quest to rid the world of the undead, and is presented as the real conflict behind the Civil War.
Before playing a rock star president in the musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which shuttered on Broadway on January 2, 2011, Walker appeared in films like Kinsey and Flags of our Fathers, and on the Great White Way in Inherit the Wind and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, where he met his now-fiancée Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep and ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Benjamin Walker Gets Presidential (Again) in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
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