Will this be Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s year? She’s got the remake of The Thing coming out, in which she plays the main role and now she’s boarding another much anticipated movie, Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, directed by Timur Bemambetov.
While a dodgy report earlier this week said Robin McLeavy would play Mary Todd in the movie, that part has actually gone to Winstead (McLeavy was the other finalist).
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter reimagines the American president as an axe-wielding, highly trained vampire hunter. Seth Grahame-Smith’s book, on which the movie will be based, gives new context to Lincoln’s rise to the presidency as well as the American Civil War (which was fought because the vampires were in league with the slave owners), suggesting these events were a lot more paranormal than history tells us, and stemmed from Lincoln’s mother’s murder by a vampire when he was a child. Mary Todd was Lincoln’s wife, who in this version of his tale, looks after his law firm and children while Abe roams the night, seeking the vampires who killed his mother.
The film will be in cinemas, June 22nd, 2012.