To Defeat The Tree, You Must First Be The Tree – New Clip From “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer”

Ok, maybe you don’t have to “be the tree” to take it down in one fell swoop, but it doesn’t hurt to be 6’4″ like the late President Abraham Lincoln…or to dredge up and concentrate all the hate and rage that you feel at having your mother taken from you at a young age…by vampires.

As someone who loved the novel, I’m pretty excited about the movie version, which opens this Friday, June 22. A United States President who took care of vampire threats while seeing the country through a turbulent civil war – that’s a guy whose candidacy I could get behind in an election. Oh well, until our nation finds itself in the middle of a vampire apocalypse, we have this movie.

News From KAPOW! – Rufus Sewell Teases Sequel To Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Straight from the Kapow! Comic Book Convention in London, here’s news from ComicBookMovies.com about the possibility of a sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Rufus Sewell:

“They couldn’t quite make their mind up during filming whether my character lived or died actually at the end. But to tell you the truth as people kept saying, ‘I’m a vampire so it doesn’t really matter.'”

“In terms of the sequel, I mean, from what I’ve seen it looks really exciting. Until I’ve seen the entire film, I couldn’t make a pronouncement on that. But I loved doing it. Dominic Cooper is an old friend of mine and we really enjoyed working with each other. Ben I liked very much.”

“It was great fun working in New Orleans. The only regret I had is that if I had known how hot it was going to be in New Orleans, when they tried the cape and the gloves on me, I might have had something to say about it! It’s very difficult eating New Orleans food if you don’t want to be the world’s first tubby vampire of the film world, you know?”

“The experience of doing it was great fun. And if the movie is as fun to watch as it was to do, then I’d be up for a sequel possibly. But you know, I’ll hold back on that for the moment.”

In case you’ve been under a rock and haven’t heard about the movie adaptation of the book by Seth Grahame-Smith, here’s a trailer to get your attention:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter drops in theaters on June 22, 2012.