One of Marvel’s big Comic-Con surprise announcements was the return of Blade.
The Daywalker is not alone in his new series by Tim Seeley and Logan Faerber.
The Vampire Hunter will be joined by his teenage daughter?! Continue reading BLADE & DAUGHTER, The Family the Slays Vampires Together
No official word that Marvel will make Black Panther the next hero to leap from comics to the big screen. Anthony Mackie (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Hurt Locker) tells The Daily Beast he would love to suit up as T’Challa.
“If Black Panther is made into a movie, I would love for it to be along the lines of Batman. It has to be an adult action hero. I would love to be a part of it, though, and I would sign on to it today.”
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Mackie is a great actor but I still stand by my choice of Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus, Luther.)
A co-worker came by my desk to ask, “Seriously, an Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter movie? Is that for real?” in response my earlier post today about the film’s first screen shot.
The question inspired our discussion of vampire mash-ups and made me remember a novel I read years ago that would make an excellent graphic novel series or movie.
In Anno Dracula, Kim Newman created the mashup in 1992 long before the trend. Imagine a Victorian England where Dracula was never defeated. The Count enthralls the Queen. British socialites are willing to become a vampire to rise in social rank. Jack the Ripper is killing vampire prostitutes. A human detective and ancient vampiress team up to solve the mystery that could threaten Dracula’s dark reign.
Anno Dracula is daring feat of reimagination that is sexy, thrilling, dark and filled with figures from real and literary history. A bloody good fantasy that would be a great graphic novel and movie.
The great Neil Gaiman said it best, “Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it’s still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.”
In a summer of Avengers, Spider-Man and Batman – is there room among movie fans for our 16th President?
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter stakes out theater in August, 2012. Collider has the first image from the film – along with a first look at Men in Black 3. Tim Burton is producing the movie based on the literary mashup that envisions Abe as a vengeance seeking dark hero. Benjamin Walker is Lincoln and Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays his wife. Two actors with genre Dominic Cooper and Rufus Sewell are among the undead.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) bring a fresh and visceral voice to the blood-thirsty lore of the vampire, imagining Lincoln as history’s greatest hunter of the undead.