ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER – Diary Photos, Featurette & Tim Burton Intro

In what is shaping up to be the most unique “A hero by day – and a superhero by night” film of the Summer of 2012, examine these images from ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER’s clandestine diary as it explores the secret life of our greatest president, and the untold story that shaped our nation. I received a surreptitious package containing this leather-bound book complete with a photo of Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and a flash drive encased in a silvery bullet. Upon further inspection it revealed various images and videos from Tim Burton’s and Timur Bekmambetov’s imagining of Lincoln as history’s greatest hunter of the undead. For those with a penchant for such visceral, mysterious things, this diary about the bloodthirsty lore of the vampire ranks right up there.

Last weekend, some of the secrets behind the upcoming motion picture thriller ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER were revealed at a special event at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. Twentieth Century Fox, which unleashes the film in theaters everywhere June 22, flew in journalists and bloggers from around the country to the famed museum, where actor Benjamin Walker, who portrays the 16^th president, director Timur Bekmambetov, co-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (author of the novel upon which the film is based), and producer Jim Lemley provided a first look at the film’s trailer, as well as selected footage and behind-the-scenes moments. (Tim Burton, who serves as producer, sent in a taped greeting.)

The visitors were treated to a host of treasures including The Gettysburg Address, on display in the Museum’s Treasures Gallery, along with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment (that officially ended slavery). This rare trifecta of key U.S. historical documents displayed together is a seldom seen treat in itself.

Guests also got a close look at Lincoln’s bloodied gloves, his stovepipe hat (made of beaver fur), and correspondence from the President to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. In addition, they were treated to a moonlit tour of the Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of his four sons.

Wanting more? Watch the new featurette and trailer from the film.

Burton, Bekmambetov, and the cast and crew of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER welcome you to the secret, action-packed life of an American icon. Their film has the action, thrills, cutting-edge visual effects and 3D, and monstrous creatures of the undead, you’d expect from a title that includes the words “vampire hunter”. But through its portrait of a beloved historical figure, it is grounded in reality. This is the Lincoln you know – with one additional quality of which you were unaware. Until now.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER stars Benjamin Walker as the titular hero; Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturges, Lincoln’s mentor in vampire hunting; Anthony Mackie as William Johnson, Lincoln’s valet and friend; and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Abe’s wife. The screenplay is by Seth Grahame-Smith and Simon Kinberg, based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. The producers are Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley. Timur Bekmambetov is the director.

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