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Release Date: June 22, 2012

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Screenwriter: Seth Grahame-Smith

Starring: Not Available

Genre: Horror, Supernatural Thriller







Summary: Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley are teaming to produce a big screen adaptation of 



Seth Grahame-Smith\'s new book \"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.\"



The following is how publisher Grand Central Publishing describes \"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter\":



\"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.



While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight 



against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth 



Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay 



eyes on it in more than 140 years.



Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David 



McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while 



revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, 



and near-death of our nation.\"