Vampire Slayers in History

You know, Buffy isn’t the only vampire slayer out there. She’s not even real! But did you know that Abraham Lincoln was, secretly, a vampire slayer? Yep. While writing para-phrases for the Emancipation Proclamation, he was driving stakes into the blood sucking vile beasts!

No… I have not lost it. But in all seriousness, Seth Grahame-Smith, who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an parody(?) of Jane Austen’s classic, has just released Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. How awesome is that?

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

To help promote the book, a trailer was made. Just more awesomeness. No, really! How ofter to you hear a “theatrical” trailer made for a book. You need to check it out!

I don’t know about you… but after seeing this, I caught myself thinking “This would even be more awesome if they actually made a real movie out of this!”

And, then, low and behold…. someone felt the same awesomeness and I did!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, there is going to be a film adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. And we’re not talking about some no name people here… Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are getting together on this! Most likely producing, and not directing… but still, it promises to be some “awesome” entertainment…