There’s no Stephenie Meyer beef or anything. I think people try to make something of-like ‘well, you know, I did this book as a reaction to Twilight.’ That’s not accurate. You know, it’s not meant for-I’m a 36-year-old father and not really the target audience for Twilight. I’ve read that you said that the inspiration for the book came from seeing Twilight near Lincoln biographies. (READ: Richard Corliss’s review of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) And once I wrote an early draft of Lincoln, Tim was impressed and asked me to work on Dark Shadows. That mostly constituted sitting with Timur and sort of listening to Timur’s crazy take on the idea and transcribing as fast as I could and trying to keep up with his imagination. As soon as I turned in the manuscript, we got to work on adapting the book immediately. And they approached me together about turning Lincoln into a movie before I was even finished with the manuscript. He and had produced a movie called 9 together, an animated movie, so they were already producing partners. The way that I understand it Tim had heard of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and was interested in whether I had any other projects or ideas. Your working relationship with Tim Burton-did it start with Abraham Lincoln? Is that how you ended up doing the screenplay for Dark Shadows? So on one hand, it’s kind of astounding to me that a book with such a ridiculous premise got made into a big movie to begin with, and then got made into the kind of sort of insane, over-the-top movie that it is. It shouldn’t really be a big-studio summer movie. I mean it makes me laugh in a way, seeing how here’s a movie that, by all accounts, shouldn’t really exist. So that, coupled with the fact that I had to get my own author ego and the sense of ownership out of the way, made it pretty challenging.Īnd now that you’ve seen it onscreen, what was that like? I don’t really conceptualize the right big-action set pieces very well. It’s a high-octane summer action movie, and that didn’t come easily to me. The book is much more sort of about the minutiae of real history and how that interweaves with the vampire story, whereas the film is really just an all-out, over-the-top genre expression of an idea. Seth Grahame-Smith: It was a challenge because the book and the movie are so vastly different. TIME: What was it like to adapt your own book for the screen? Grahame-Smith spoke to TIME about learning to write a movie, adapting his own work and straying from the accepted vampire mythologies. On June 22, the film adaptation of his vampire book-now called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, with a colon-opens in theaters. ![]() Movie Review: Luke and Lucy the Texas Rangers (Sus.Follow Grahame-Smith is perhaps best known for his mashup novels, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.Movie Review: Zombie Diaries 2: World of the Dead.Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies.Movie Review: Day of the Dead: The Beginning.Movie Review: Resident Evil: Retribution.Movie Review: Gangsters, Guns and Zombies.Clark, Lydia Clark, Melanie Conzchi, Jorge Corona, Rich Lane Disco, Rebecca Etheridge, Rob Fletcher, Rebecca Gnann, Susie Hohenstein, Jon M Hudson, Gwen Kasprzycki, Tyler Marion, EmmaRose Orthman, Ronald "RP" Pickens, Kenny Prawat, Robin Reynolds, Finn Schiesser, Talon Schiesser, James Troutman, 'Meme' Mary Elizabeth Etheridge Walton, Ryan Watterson, Laura Yacso, William R. Carter, Therese Cavegn, Richard Cheely, Dennis Clark, John K. Barach, Steve Baisden, Melissa Balazs, Craig Michael Beck, Morgan Beem, Lounie Benton, Brian Bird, Sherry Bishop, Jared Boswell, Angie Bosworth, Megan Bosworth, Jason Boyd, Caden Boyette, Crew Boyette, Amy Brice, Kennedy Brice, Bryce Broussard, Tyler Burgett, Corey Carr, Thomas A. Starring: Bill Oberst Jr., Kent Igleheart, Rhianna Van Helton, Brennen Harper, Josh Sinyard, Debra Crittenden, Bernie Ask, Chris Hlozek, Richard Schenkman, Jim E Chandler, Corey Seawell, Jason Vail, Jason Hughley, Eric Lee Galloway, Ronald Ogden, Shane Gray, Raed Ali, Anthony Paderewski, Chip Lane, Phil Parham, Nathaniel Grauwelman, Stephen Shane Martin, Chris Whitley, Sean Freeland, Christopher Marrone, Don McGraw, Baby Norman, Hannah Bryan, Anna Fricks, Canon Kuipers, David Harland Rousseau, Christopher Deen, David Alexander, Muki Aledori, David Anderson, Jim Anderson, Steve E.
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