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Wow, very cool trailer, one of the best I’ve seen in months (especially with Johnny Cash flourish). Produced by Tim Burton and Jim Lemley, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, the Twentieth Century Fox horror-history mashup will usher in a summer of vampires, zombies, and aliens. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opens June 22nd and is an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel: he’s also the credited screenwriter with Simon Kinberg. The pic stars Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, and Dominic Cooper in fiction about President Lincoln’s mother killed by a supernatural creature who fuels Abe’s passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers:
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Wow, stupid- stupid, stupid–Cowboys and Aliens level of stupid. Mash-ups of genres so rarely work –and this doesn’t look like it does.eeshh–counting on the pedigree of the creators-and apparently no one has said to them this idea is ridiculous…
Totally disagree, this looks great. Maybe you hate America.
This trailer looks pretty generic to me. Not sure what people see in it. Not enough footage here to even really make a judgement.
What am I missing??
Don’t think you’re missing much. The action has a generic post matrix look to it. Aside from a few shots it looks pretty ridiculous.
I’m betting it does very well, however. We live in a time when Transformers rules.
This is original and cool George. Cowboys was a bad film with a James Bond stuck in the wild west and a too old han solo.
This is new and different…looks amazing!
How does this look “amazing”? I watched it twice and it’s just maybe 4 moments total taken from the film (3 seconds each), sewn together with dramaticized editing.
As someone above said, there’s not enough material here to make a judgment on this either way. But I do know one thing – a “vampire hunting Abraham Lincoln” is indeed ridiculous based on concept alone. This piece does nothing to dispell that.
This is new and different? You’re right- there haven’t been any movies or tv shows about vampires lately.
Sure it’s a little ridiculous, but it also looks like a lot of fun, which C & A’s sure wasn’t.
I don’t get the hate for Cowboys & Aliens. I thought that movie was pretty cool. Simply change the title to West of Orion and you have a hit.
Not only does this look ridiculous, it’s is a blatant distortion of history. These people should be ashamed of themselves. Everyone knows Lincoln fought zombies, not vampires.
haha… touche.
I agree — this look lame. I’m all for mixing things up but this just looks like the wrong direction to go… how about some jokes? I hope the title isn’t the funniest thing about this.
That’s correct, it’s not a spoof. It takes an admittedly absurd title and runs with it, treating it fairly seriously. That’s what’s so fun about it. I disagree with the original commenter – winks at the audience and lame anachronistic jokes are the LAST thing this movie needs. A movie can be fun without being a comedy.
I’m waiting for the further evolution BILL CLINTON; INTERN HUNTER.
I agree 100% >.<
Vampires, whatever. The Washington Monument wasn’t anywhere near finished when Lincoln was in office.
In the book the story starts out in present time with the disovery of an old diary. So there is a chance that they may show present day Washington at the beginning of themovie.
It’s a modern shot of DC. The Lincoln Memorial can be seen behind the Washington Monument and the forest of office towers in Rosslyn are all in the background.
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s from a contemporary prologue or epilogue, as they accurately show the US Capitol under construction in another shot.
It’s funny how nowadays you can do the most mind-blowing visuals – real technical accomplishments – placed back to back to back and have it have zero impact. Trailer after trailer of this genre stuff just looks… familiar. And hollow.
Wasn’t the Washington monument unfinished during the Civil War? Is that a revisionist plot point from the novel, or just a really stupid error?
Really? You’re on board with the believability of vamps but you’re hung up on the ‘real’ build date of a monument? It’s fiction!
The novel has an epilogue set in 1963, I’m assuming it’s that.
Weird that they used the Johnny Cash spoken word stuff from “The Man Comes Around” but not the actual music.
Really sad that the Great Emancipator, who I’m sure would have had nothing to do with Hollywood in general (he was, after all, assassinated by an actor) and the Man in Black, whose standards surely would have led him to make a similar decision, are both being exploited post mortem in this trashy-looking piece of cultural jetsam.
Yay, Lev! Could not have said it better myself.
Disappointed that Nikki thought this was “cool”. This trailer looks the same as 10 0r 12 I’ve seen before. Nothing new here. Move along folks…
wait, Johnny Cash would have “nothing to do with Hollywood”? That sounds right.. well, except for his long career as an actor. His “standards” include appearances in The Partridge Family, Little House on the Prairie, the Simpsons and four appearances on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Exploitation indeed.
Well, you see, those other things had class. This look JONAH HEX reheated.
CGI Bukake.
Best comment here…except for the spelling….
The point is – will the movie be good? Will it be Wanted or Nightwatch or Sleepy Hollow? The concept aside, it looks like fun – and that’s what a summer movie should be. At least it’s different to the usual run of sequels.
I gotta admit, that looked pretty awesome.
I want to thank Fox for having the courage to say that what President Lincoln actually did for our country wasn’t interesting or relevant enough for cinema. That what President Lincoln actually said wasn’t important enough to hold our attention. That President Lincoln’s legacy really needed some embellishment to make him memorable. Fox knows that Lincoln’s personal sacrifice for the preservation of our nation wasn’t enough on its own. Fox needed to make it better. Thanks.
LOL. are you really that impressed with yourself? no, there haven’t been ANY movies about Lincoln or the Civil War… other than the 50 you can find on IMDB…
and you are aware that this guy Spielberg has a Lincoln movie coming out next Christmas??
lighten up…
danobannon,
Nowhere do I suggest that there haven’t been films made about Lincoln. I suggest you pull out a dictionary, define the words in my first sentence, then read them again really slowly. Then think about it for more than a second before you write your next pithy response.
By the way. Dan was a good friend of mine. Your use of his name is really insulting to his memory.
Uh…Spielberg may or may not already be making a movie on Lincoln’s life. This movie may or may not be a fun attempt at historical fiction, not actual social commentary on the whether or not people find Lincoln to be interesting. Thanks for taking movies way too seriously.
Bravely defending Abraham Lincoln! Wow! You just don’t give a tinker’s dam about controversy, do you. Just laying it all on the line, come what may. haha.
This is a bit of secret history horror action fun. Nobody is saying that Lincoln wasn’t important in his own right. Don’t be such a damn wet blanket. Are you one of those crybabies who threatened to hold their breath until Columbia dropped THE DA VINCI CODE, too? How’d that work out?
wow this movie looks stupid i dont understand why we like lincoln at all he was a ignorant president who broke the constitution his generals killed many innocent women children and unarmed cities whites and blacks alike his army murdered he was a tyrant why do we make movies about him……..
If you read the geek fan forums, there’s a huge, huge backlash against this pic. Not that that has ever made a studio exec lose sleep, but still this looks like a certified bomb on the level of Sucker Punch.
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no….
Wonderful to see the lasting identity of one of our greatest Americans turned into a CGI cartoon character at the perverse hands of the overrated Tim Burton, whose greatest achievement to date for humanity is… um… somebody help me here.
The “lasting identity?” You’re not serious, right? This is a joke?
where is Anthony Mackie? The briliant actor is third billed-why isn’t he mentioned here?
Agreed, but I’m really impressed with your use of the word “jetsam.”
Looks interesting to me, what’s with all the haters?
With Kindberg behind it, should be a smart script at least.
This looks horrible.
It’s so crazy, it just might work!
This film is just so offbeat, it could do fourscore and seven million on the opening weekend, if the actors don’t assassinate it.
Bravo! Laughed mightily.
What is it about and why should I spend $15 on it? Ok it looks cool, but so does Gisele Bundchen and we all know what crap came out of her mouth.
cool trailer – realize this is fantasy but would have been nice if they’d gotten the simple fact of DC architecture right. Washington Monument was about 1/3 that height in 1860s.
Yeah, watching this, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that it’s just so god damned stupid. No other word occurred to me, really.
A rather silly concept, reminiscent of Robert Smigel’s “X Presidents” cartoons on SNL. But the current (and ludicrous) obsession with vampires and zombies is what’s getting greenlit these days–I’m surprised there’s not a “Real Vampires of Romania.” On a brighter note, kudos for a shorter trailer that doesn’t give the whole movie away (although we all know Lincoln dies in the end).
“…kudos for a shorter trailer that doesn’t give the whole movie away (although we all know Lincoln dies in the end).”
This is a teaser. The long-form trailer will follow in the months ahead.
I liked the idea of this when I first heard of it, but after actually seeing Honest Abe chopping down vamps with an axe, I can’t help thinking that it’s just dumb.
Nikki, really? Best trailer in months? Girl, you gotta get out more…