Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Woot! Woot!  I love this news.  I got a YouTube link about this litvid or book promotion movie.  For those of you who only read blogs, a litvid is a means to promote a new book coming out.  People will do a mini-movie then post it to the internet hoping things go viral and that their book will become a best seller.  The other hope is that movie producers can see the visual potential for the book and make it a movie.

Well, ladies and gentlemen this has happened for a really good litvid.  Seth Grahame Smith has down another historical-fantasy mash up with his book, Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter. 

Thankfully, Tim Burton and his friends Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley will be making this into a movie with a June 22, 2012 release. 

I'm so happy I could punch someone in the face.  I'm hoping this thing will be an awesome movie given it's the promise of its premise.

The actors vying for the lead also give me hope these are no wet willies.  

EXCLUSIVE: There are few hotter projects in Hollywood right now than Twentieth Century Fox's macabre 3D Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter based on the Seth Grahame-Smith novel (he also wrote the script) that will be directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Timur, Tim Burton, and Jim Lemley. The studio has set a June 22, 2012 release for the film and has been focused on casting since November. Now we can tell you the list of actors who'll be screentesting for the role of young Abe Lincoln this week and next: Benjamin Walker, James D'Arcy, Adrien Brody, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Josh Lucas. It's a very interesting mix of semi-knowns and unknowns, stage and screen vets. - http://www.deadline.com/

 I'm a likin' what I'm a hearin'.