Alan Tudyk has joined the cast of Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He will play the historical figure Stephen A. Douglas who was Lincoln’s political opponent and in the novel was aligned with the vampires of the South. Tudyk is best known as Wash, one of the main cast members of Joss Whedon’s short-lived but much-loved TV series Firefly and its movie adaptation Serenity. He also had a memorable role in Whedon’s Dollhouse, and has appeared in the films A Knight’s Tale, Dodgeball and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma.
Director Bekmambetov’s (Wanted, Night Watch) $69 million 3D period action movie will recount the future President’s mission to rid the world of the bloodthirsty undead. Although its premise is quite ridiculous, the film is expected to portray it seriously, as the novel does.
The other actors rounding out the varied cast for the film are Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers, The War Boys) in the lead role, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) as Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd, Robin McLeavy (The Loved Ones) as his mother Nancy, Jimmi Simpson (Date Night, Zodiac) as Lincoln’s friend Josh Speed, and Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia) and Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, The Adjustment Bureau) in key fictional roles from the novel.
Alan Tudyk can be seen this summer in the blockbuster sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, in which he has a supporting role as a colleague of Agent Simmons (John Turturro). Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is due to begin shooting soon and is scheduled for release in the UK on August 22nd, 2012.
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