EXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton shot this taped introduction for a Fox event at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, Illinois, last Friday night. Burton gave the museum a first look at the summer movie’s trailer, footage, and behind-the-scenes moments before the flm opens June 22nd. Fox flew in journalists and bloggers from around the country to the museum. Actor Benjamin Walker who portrays the 16th president, director Timur Bekmambetov, co-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (author of the novel), and producer Jim Lemley all made a presentation. Burton didn’t attend:
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Wow. That. Sucked. Hard to believe that came from someone with talent.
I seriously thought the trailer was a joke when I saw it the first time. It’s unbelievable they went through and made a film with that ridiculous a concept and it’s stone-faced serious. Good luck selling that one!
It’s from Tim Burton. It’s called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. How much hand holding do you… oh never mind.
What’s your point? That is going to make it clever and funny like Men In Black?
Tim Burton didn’t even direct the movie. And also for the movies he has directed, nothing has a concept this stupid.
This was lame and doesn’t work as a standalone…
This is insane!
I’m not sure whether I liked it or not…. It was weird!
I do love Tim Burton
That was lame. Why didn’t they have Kevin Smith come out as Silent Bob and mug over Burton’s shoulder, reading a comic book?
He tore the wrong page out of Hitchcock’s TV playbook.
But I’ll see anything Burton does.
Are you all simple? Tim Burton didn’t make this movie, he simply paid for it. That’s it. The director is some guy named Timur Bekmambetov.