'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter' Trailer: Watch Our Sixteenth President Slay A Group Of Bloodsuckers

First Posted: 02/13/2012 12:13 pm Updated: 02/13/2012 12:55 pm

Daniel Day-Lewis, eat your heart out? The first trailer for "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" has arrived (yes, this movie is actually happening), filled with grand speeches, old shots of Washington D.C. and our 16th President chopping down vampires with an axe.

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted"), the film follows Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) as he looks to navigate the country through a Civil War, where vampires in the South look to defeat the North, thus enslaving all of human existence. (Just as it's told in history text books!)

"Vampire Hunter," which is based on a book of the same name, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper and Anthony Mackie. It hits theaters June 22, 2012. And for a more balanced representation of Lincoln, you may want to look out for Steven Spielberg's biopic, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, which also opens sometime this year.

[via TIME]

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mheister
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03:47 AM on 02/14/2012
Lead vampire? John Wilkes Boothe.
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mheister
Raconteur. Blog michaelheister.com
03:45 AM on 02/14/2012
Maybe they plan to have old Abe impale a giant vampire on the Washington Monument?
GonzoFactor
Rationality and rationalization are not the same
01:35 AM on 02/14/2012
Oh, man. Why didn't they do "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" or "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" first?
01:28 AM on 02/14/2012
did you see that tree explode? someone tell me they saw that tree explode !
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Soundofthunder
Listen to the thunder
01:08 AM on 02/14/2012
"I'm gonna emancipate your head from your body!" - great line that should be in this film.

S
12:37 AM on 02/14/2012
So this is what Daniel Day Lewis has been up to.
12:25 AM on 02/14/2012
Timur delivers. Let's just pretend Wanted never happend.

Still want him to complete the Daywatch saga though.
12:22 AM on 02/14/2012
I fear that quite a few Americans will think this is a documentary. The same sorts of people who belong to the Tea Party.
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Me atlast
Live, love, paint
12:17 AM on 02/14/2012
Are you a patriot or a vampire? Sounds like a GOP line...

Looks fabulous....
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theveggiedude
my body is a temple, not a living graveyard
12:01 AM on 02/14/2012
Lincoln fighting vampires? I prefer him fighting aliens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQkIoBx-VU
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Jeff Cunningham
12:00 AM on 02/14/2012
Maybe all Slayers aren't female after all.
11:57 PM on 02/13/2012
It was a great book, should be a good flim
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12:31 AM on 02/14/2012
Here's the book trailer:

Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter

http://youtu.be/tQ0f3UZie1w
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BigFootJesus
It's alright Ma I'm only bleeding.
11:56 PM on 02/13/2012
The book was a lot of fun but in the book Abe was not so "super" human and ninja like with the ax. They have definitely changed a lot of things.
11:53 PM on 02/13/2012
The Asylum is bringing out their own Abraham Lincoln movie in May titled Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. If you never seen a Asylum film all they're are direct rips of major films. This is know as a mockbuster.
http://www.horroryearbook.com/5425321/first-look-abraham-lincoln-vs-zombies
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mheister
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03:40 AM on 02/14/2012
Some folks enjoy the Asylum flicks. I wish those guys would just fully embrace the camp, because they don't have the budget or the acting talent to compete on a level playing field.
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Demarcus Jackson
Community College Psychology Prof in the South
11:49 PM on 02/13/2012
This just may be stupid and preposterous enough to be one of the greatest films of all time :-)