Tim Burton’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” Trailer

Here’s a trailer for Tim Burton’s forthcoming adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2010 satirical horror novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The novel’s author also wrote the adapted screenplay. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is directed by Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov.

Filming began in Louisiana in March 2011, and the film is being produced in 3D. It is scheduled to be released on June 22, 2012.

Below is what the Onion’s Sean O’Neal think of the movie:

Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was not an expertly trained martial artist who pulled double duty as our sixteenth president and a slayer of the undead, but what Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter asks is, “What if… he was?”

Adapted from the monster mash-up novel from Seth Grahame-Smith, the forthcoming film from Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov and producer Tim Burton obviously gets fairly tongue-in-cheek with its alternate U.S. history—the kind the liberal-run schools are too afraid to teach you—but it’s not like you’d necessarily know it from this teaser. It’s mostly a dialogue-free procession of slow-motion action shots of Honest Abe twirling his axe and shattering trees with single blows, all set to Johnny Cash’s spoken-word outro to “The Man Comes Around”

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