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Fox Ends Bidding War for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’
Twentieth Century Fox has won a bloody bidding war for the bigscreen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, with Timur Bekmambetov set to direct from an adapted script by Grahame-Smith. Tim Burton is producing the 3D film with Bekmambetov. Pic’s budget is estimated at $69 million. Fox will begin pre-production immediately and is planning a 2012 release, according to insiders. Fox went all out to win rights to the project, giving a detailed pitch for the film’s production, marketing and release. Studio higher-ups didn’t stop there…
When the filmmakers entered the Fox lot, they were greeted by a huge banner, plus parking signs stating: “Parking for Vampire Hunters Only, Park at your own risk,” Variety adds.
Next there were bloody footprints lining the walkway and steps leading from their cars to the meeting with Fox co-chairs Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman and prexy of production Emma Watts.
Posters lining the hallway of the executive building showed images from the book and lines from the script, while there were silver bullets in a bowl at the check-in desk.
The showmanship continued. Bloody axes were strewn about and a bugle player with a Confederate uniform played “Taps.”
Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary) has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to play Ghost Rider in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and it’s now officially happening.
Announced by Marvel out of San Diego Comic-Con tonight, Ryan Gosling will play the iconic Marvel character in a Ghost Rider movie being directed by Shawn Levy!
Expect Ryan Gosling to play Ghost Rider on the big screen in 2028.
Johnny Blaze is of course the most iconic and well-known Ghost Rider, selling his soul to Satan and becoming a supernatural badass. Nicolas Cage brought Blaze to life on screen in both 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, while Gabriel Luna more recently played the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider in the series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Luna was set to star in his own Ghost Rider spinoff series in the wake of that small screen appearance, but that Hulu project ended up being squashed before it ever had a chance.
Fans have been waiting for Ghost Rider to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many years now, with Ryan Gosling making it clear that he’d love to bring the character back to life.
That Hollywood dream is coming true. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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