SLASH FILM has obtained an email from one of their readers named Dustin that contained details from film producer Jim Lemley's appearence at the University Of Idaho (
Slash Film has contacted the University and confirmed his appearence). The class was shown pictures and given details about
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter that you can read below:
- To start with, Ben Walker looks amazing as Lincoln in the photos shown today by Lemley; they did a great job of dressing him up into a spot-on image of Lincoln. Walker will be portraying Lincoln from ages 22-death.
- Contrary to the IMDB listing Joaquin Phoenix is not a lock for the role of Henry Sturgess as of yet. Judging Lemley’s body language I would say Phoenix is the one he wants for that part.
- As already reported the film will be made in 3-D.
- Lemley showed part of the script written by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the book, and it contains a lot of direction which leads me to believe it will be very close to the book.
- My class was shown a 3-minute pre-visualization during Lemley’s presentation and it looked awesome; it’s the first action sequence of the film. The scene was set outside of New Orleans and Lincoln and a vampire were locked in battle in the middle of a stampede of horses. The action sequence was much in the vein of Wanted (which is no surprise considering the director). Like everyone else my favorite parts of Wanted were the action sequences so I think having the same sort of action in Vampire Hunter is good news. After seeing the pre-viz I am very excited for this movie. Just some other bits of info the producers are committed to being historically accurate and the film will have a very dark feel to it.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hits theaters June 22nd, 2012 and stars Ben Walker with Timur Bekmambetov directing.
Lemley was also a producer for the comic book movie
Wanted and was questioned about it's sequel, Here is the break down of his response:
- Additionally, Lemley is also a producer on Wanted and of course someone in my class asked about Wanted 2. I hate to say it but Wanted 2 sounds like it will not happen any time soon if at all.
Wanted 2 has no release date but Timur Bekmambetov is expected to direct