"We don’t kill a baby in the film, but we are an R-rated film. There are creatures getting their heads cut off, naked women interacting with vampires, limbs flying, and blood splatters. You know, there’s a dark, gory violence to the movie. We certainly don’t shy away from that"
The story sees President Abraham Lincoln re imagined as the ass-kicking nemesis of vampires everywhere, a man who saw his own mother killed by a bloodsucker when just a young boy, and who has vowed vengeance ever since. Yet it also weaves in historical facts about his term in the White House.
Benjamin Walker will play Abe, while the great Rufus Sewell ("Dark City) has been cast as the vampire villain Adam Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alan Tudyk Anthony Mackie and Dominic Cooper also star
Timur Bekmambetov both directs and co-produces the pic with Tim Burton and Jim Lemley.
The pic is pegged for release on release on June 22nd this year.
Grahame-Smith, who adapted "Abe" his own work with Simon Kinberg also wrote the May 11th version of classic 60's Gothic soap "Dark Shadows", is also working on the screenplay for Beetlejuice 2 and a new original stop-motion animated film "Night of the Living" for Tim Burton.
Asked about Juice 2, he says he wouldn't have even attempted the project if he'd had any fear of screwing it up.
"What I keep telling people is I don’t want to do it unless we’re really sure that it’s worthy. The original is one of my favorite movies, so I don’t want to make Son of the Mask. I would rather kill myself than destroy the legacy of one of my favorite films. Right now I owe people an idea and a treatment, and that’s where it is right now. We’re a little while off from any news or movement from that… Right now it’s in the ‘we’ll see’ stage."
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