Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[veronica]

Several times through the course of his early training, Lincoln sustains wounds to his right eye. The real Abraham Lincoln was killed by a bullet lodged just behind his right eye.

[dustin]

Robin McLeavy was considered to play Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd.

[claude]

Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote both the screenplay and the novel on which the movie is based, explained to Time Magazine that (contrary to many audience members' assumptions) the text-sending man in the bar, whom Henry recruits as his latest partner at the end of the movie, was not meant to be George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or any other real-life public figure. It's just the average man. To quote: "It's not meant to be anyone particular, it's just meant to sort of dovetail with the earlier scene of Henry and Abe." He also said that he himself played the texting man.

[kristen]

Joshua Speed was one of Abraham Lincoln's oldest friends, dating back to their days in Springfield, Illinois. Joshua never actually came to Washington, but his brother James Speed was considered one of Lincoln's oldest friends in Washington, and served as Attorney General from late 1864 until he resigned in 1866.

[ronnie]

The scene where President Lincoln works at a large Oval Office desk while his son Willie plays with toys beneath it is based on an iconic photograph of President John F. Kennedy and little John Kennedy Jr.

[tammy]

At the time of this film's release, Benjamin Walker was married to Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep. Streep presented the Best Actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis for playing Lincoln (2012) this same year.

[cameron]

The movie was shot in 2D and post converted into the 3D format.

[phyllis]

Shipped to the cinema with codename "Bloody Honest".

[gabriel]

While preparing for the role, Benjamin Walker delivered the Gettysburg Address to the director and producer.

[bryan]

When Adam bites Henry, Rufus Sewell had never played a vampire before. No one had given him "the talk" on how to perform a vampire bite which led to him accidentally breaking his fake vampire teeth. They were longer than he had realized.

[russell]

Benjamin Walker trained to be able to do a lot of his own stunt work with an axe.

[brent]

Edgar Allan Poe, an important character from the novel, was excised from the movie version. He appears in the animated deleted scene Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity (2012), voiced by Clifton Collins Jr., who made a cameo in Mary Elizabeth Winstead's vehicle Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

[jessica]

At the end of the film, when Abraham Lincoln says goodbye to Henry, his wife Mary calls him, saying that they will be late for the theater. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died in a coma at 7:22 the next morning.

[darrell]

Benjamin Walker promoted the film in character for armed services personnel aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier named for the historical President he plays.

[kyle]

In 2010, Benjamin Walker appeared in a stage production called "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." He plays a title character, a fantasy version of a real-life American President.

[jessica]

There is now a sequel novel. Named "The Last American Vampire" and published in 2015, the novel follows Henry Sturges on his continued fight against vampires after 1865.

[sandra]

Although both are credited to the same author Seth Grahame-Smith, the movie and its source novel are very different. Adam and Vadoma do not appear in the book - they were created to satisfy the fantasy-action movie tradition's demand an "archnemesis". In the book, Henry became a vampire in the 1580s and Abe recognizes him as such at first sight. Vampiric twists are given to many well-known trivial anecdotes from Abraham Lincoln's biography, as well as additional Civil War battles such as Bull Run and Antietam. There are tangential subplots involving historical figures such as Edgar Allan Poe, William Henry Seward, General George B. McClellan, and John Wilkes Booth. (The movie's inclusion of Harriet Tubman, who was not in the book, may attempt to compensate for this loss.) Mary Todd Lincoln never learns about vampires. Vampires are additionally able to kill other vampires, and there are many "vamp-on-vamp" battles whose absence is considered by book fans to be one of the film's largest shortcomings. There is also a surprising twist at the end, as well as a sequel novel.

[jeffrey]

Tom Hardy was approached for the title role, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Eric Bana, Timothy Olyphant, Adrien Brody, Josh Lucas, James D'Arcy, Rob Huebel, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen were also considered to play the role.