ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER
Timur Bekmambetov to direct "ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER"
Timur Bekmambetov, previously attached only as producer, has announced his intention to direct "ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER" in an interview with Empire.Describing the film as being in a similar vein as "NIGHT WATCH", Bekmambetov says that production will ideally begin this winter and that the property is being looked at as a potential franchise. Perhaps a tongue-in-cheek comment, the director claims that the film is in no ways comedy but is, instead, "a very entertaining, epic history lesson."
The article also offers updates on a number of other films Bekmambetov has been connected to, including a mention that he would like to direct the Fox version of "20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA", to be produced alongside Ridley Scott. Unlike the competing Disney version, this version will offer a "modernized" take.
"MOBY DICK", meanwhile, is still in the scripting stages but will, apparently, feature a cast of super-powered characters who battle against a supernatural whale.
Other projects include "RED ASPHALT", a horror movie about drunk driving for release in 3D (which Bekmambetov describes as "one big car chase"), the potential remake of "BLACK LIGHTNING", which he will only produce, and (also in a producer-only capacity) "THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR". "WANTED 2" is currently waiting for James McAvoy to finish "X-MEN: FIRST CLASS".
Synopsis : At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate Barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of Henry Sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. The quid pro quo is that Abe will kill only those vampires that Henry directs him to. Abe relocates to Springfield where he gets a job as a store clerk while he studies the law and kills vampires by night. He also meets and eventually marries the pretty Mary Todd. Many years later as President of the United States, he comes to realize that vampires are fighting with the Confederate forces. As a result he mounts his own campaign to defeat them.
Source : comingsoon.net / cinema-france.com
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