By Adam Quigley/Oct. 3, 2010 3:06 pm EST
More updates after the break.
Odd to learn that studios were vying hard for the film, considering the title alone would seem to make it a hard sell to anyone that isn’t you or me. But I suppose the financial viability of a project changes a smidge when a billion-dollar grossing filmmaker is backing it. Add to the equation a studio rash enough to fight for a Beach Boys musical, and you have yourself one of the crazier sounding studio blockbusters to get the greenlight in recent years.
Previously, Bekmambetov had this to say about the film:
Here’s Publisher’s Weekly recap of the book:
It is not a comedy at all – it is a very entertaining, epic history lesson for millions and millions of teenagers. If you remember Night Watch, it is maybe in the vein of that kind of movie. We are keeping the traditional look of Lincoln – the big hat and the beard. He has to be historically correct, but with a few special weapons.
And here’s the promo trailer for the book:
Seth Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author’s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace.
