Four Score and Seven Beheadings Ago!
I’ve read me some
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. And if the film follows in the original novel’s footsteps, those of you expecting an amusing tongue-in-cheek action romp will be as surprised as I was.
See author
Seth Grahame-Smith (
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) chose to ignore the frankly ridiculous premise of his tale, and wrote it more or less straight. Honest Abe (
Benjamin Walker) slew the undead. And slew ‘em good.
Just go ahead and deal with that.
And while similarly, director
Timur Bekmambetov (
Night Watch,
Day Watch,
Wanted) seems to ignore the frankly ludicrous notion of this enterprise, he obviously has no intention of letting a little thing called realism hold his favourite axe-twirling, vampire chopping president back!
Now THAT’S a president, bitches!
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter chops its way into cinemas on June 22nd, 2012 and co-stars
Dominic Cooper,
Rufus Sewell and
Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
And in addition to Abe’s sombre beard, there’s a bit of auld
Johnny Cash in there to boot. So you know this whole The-Great-Emancipator-was-actually-history’s-foremost-Vampire-Hunter is no laughing matter!