Burton to Hunt Vampires with Abe Lincoln

Done with “Alice in Wonderland” 3D and there’s still no official certainty about his big screen adaptation to 60's supernatural TV show “Dark Shadow” which will re-teaming him (again) with Johnny Depp, rumor has it that Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted," "Night Watch") are teaming for a feature film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's novel "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". According to Deadline Hollywood, Burton and Bekmambetov have used their own money to acquire film rights to the novel and no studio is involved as of yet. Grahame-Smith also penned the New York Times bestselling "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" novel which Natalie Portman is developing for Lionsgate.

While "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was a marriage of the Jane Austen tale with an attack of bloodthirsty zombies, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," is a loose sketch of Lincoln's life with one twist - the 16th US president is the world's most skilled vampire hunter. The story posits that Lincoln’s mother was killed by a vampire, igniting a passion to kill the creatures. As a result the U.S. President is a highly trained hunter set out on a path of revenge that will take him all the way to the White house.