Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) has just been cast as Lincoln's wife in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. She'll be joining Benjamin Walker in the adaptation of the Seth Graham-Smith novel. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is scheduled for a release on June 22nd, 2012 and is being shot in 3D. The film is an alternate take on history which chronicles Lincoln's life as vampire hunter.
"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."
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