The cast of the much-anticipated big screen version of Seth Grahame-Smith's novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has just expanded by one. Variety's reporting Alan Tudyk (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) has signed up to play Stephen A Douglas in the dramatic action film set up at 20th Century Fox.
Tudyk will be joining Benjamin Walker ('Abraham Lincoln'), Dominic Cooper ('Henry Sturgess'), Mary Elizabeth Winstead ('Mary Todd Lincoln'), Anthony Mackie ('William Seward'), and Jimmi Simpson ('Josh Speed'). Fox is aiming for a June 22, 2012 release of the film which will be directed by Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov.
Author Grahame-Smith wrote the script. Bekmambetov, Jim Lemley and Tim Burton are producing.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Synopsis:
"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."In Related News:
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