Abraham Lincoln may have been a renowned killer of bloodsuckers before stepping up to the lead the nation, but he couldn't have done it without his lady friend Mary Todd.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim," the upcoming "Thing" prequel) will play the voice of reason to the tall, bearded politician in "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov's revisionist American history tale "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
Written by Seth Graham-Smith, whose making a living revamping period stories with sci-fi/fantasy elements (he wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"), the movie centers on of a young Honest Abe as he battles vampires during the Civil War.
Winstead joins a cast of up-and-comers including Anthony Mackie ("The Hurt Locker"), Dominic Cooper ("An Education") and Benjamin Walker as Lincoln, who oddly enough, recently starred as Andrew Jackson in Broadway's "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson." The guy loves Presidents.
Here's hoping Winstead gets in on the heart-staking when "Vampire Hunter" hits theaters June 22, 2012.