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Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov Plan Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Movie Adaptation

Even Tim Burton isn’t immune to the vampire virus that’s sweeping the globe. The crazy-creative filmmaker is reuniting with Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov (the duo worked together to produce animated feature, 9) to sink his teeth into Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, just released this Tuesday, is in the same quirky genre as his bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is already set to be made into a film starring Natalie Portman....  read more

Wanted director to helm "revisionist" take on Moby-Dick

We’re not normally the types to hammer Hollywood on principle, but this has to be the most inexplicable thing we’ve heard in a long time. Timur Bekmambetov, the Kazakh-Russian zealot responsible for the (admittedly sort of awesome) flying cars and bomb-strapped rats in last summer’s Wanted, will craft a “revisionist” take on Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s definitive work. ...  read more