When you have a premise as good as this, you can’t just make one movie. The first trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” has just been released and the film’s writer is already talking about a sequel.

Based completely on historical facts, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” tells the story of Honest Abe getting revenge on a group of vampires that killed his mother. Here’s the synopsis from IMDB:

“President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.”

Seth Graham-Smith, who penned the novel as well as the screenplay, said that the first movie leaves the door completely open for a sequel. Graham-Smith says that “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” reads like a Superhero origin novel, which means that the first movie merely sets the groundwork for a never-ending run of sequels.

Graham-Smith told the CS Monitor:

“The short answer is yes, absolutely. If you read the book there’s an epilogue that leaves things open to that. In the film, without giving anything away, we don’t definitively end the origin story. We leave,  not only a mentor story, but also possibly a Lincoln story open.”

Are you interested in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?” Are you hoping for a sequel?

Last month a leaked photo showed Daniel Day Lewis dressed up as Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, that photo was from another movie. Benjamin Walker will take on the lead role in the Vampire movie.

Here’s the trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.”

‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Trailer Released, Sequel in the Works [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

It should be no surprise to anyone that some of the most popular people in history get a lot of books written about them. From autobiographies to biographies that range from humorist to scandalous books about the famous to the infamous books provide a look into the life and experiences of those people.

One of the most famous people in history of course would have to be Abraham Lincoln so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there has been a lot of books written about him, one of the newest is a humorous look at him as being one of the first vampire hunters, but I’m willing to bet you don’t know how many have been written.

Well the people at Ford’s Theater Center for Education and Leadership decided to find out by building a tower in the lobby of the center with one copy of each book.

Three stories later the magic number of books written about the 16th president of the United States turns out to  be 15,000 titles.

Here are some images of that incredible tower of books about Abraham Lincoln thanks to the folks at Fresh Pics.

Just how many books about Abe Lincoln have there been written? Three stories worth. is a post from: The Inquisitr

I don’t normally talk much about politics even though I spend a fair amount of time watching the American political scene. Much of that scene lately has been either direct attacks by Glenn Beck against the president by calling him a racist or to incite the latest campaign against the president’s choice to head a green jobs initiative – Van Jones.

Now I don’t proclaim to know much about Van Jones but in the current climate of news organization partisanship it is highly unlikely that any truth about the man could be found at this point. It has all boiled down to a case of they said – he said from which finding any truth is next to impossible.

What is interesting to watch is how this news organization driven partisanship is being used increasingly to create even bigger dividing lines between the American people. It seems that in the current environment people like Glenn Beck have become less the journalists they laughably claim to be and more the lightening rod for a movement that seems bent on splitting the country even further apart.

Sure organizations like FOX News can hide behind the “he’s a commentator and therefore given the freedom to express his opinions” but that doesn’t change the fact that while <cough>news</cough> organizations like FOX are getting rich from this kind of so-called commentary they are also contributing to the split of the country.

With people like Beck at the helm of carefully worded incendiary comments that are spread around the world one has to wonder if people like Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy would ever have achieved all the great things that they did. After all they weren’t perfect people either and I am sure that people like Beck and the public pulpit provided by companies like FOX would have done everything they could have to tear those men down – just as they are try with Obama, and have done with Van Jones.

Rather than hide behind white hoods and a hangman’s noose people like Beck use the power of words to incite a society filled with fear to ignore their commonsense and become nothing more than attack dogs. In the process people like Beck make a shame and mockery of our news. They can couch those words all they like in terms of just being commentary in order to protect the companies that employee them with big paychecks; but in the end they are making a joke of the news and of the people who follow them like blind little sheep.

Would Lincoln or JFK have survived Beck’s America? is a post from: The Inquisitr

The New Lincoln Penny Series

The new Lincoln penny is the first of four Lincoln pennies set to debut over the coming year. The coins all feature the same head, pictured at right, with different tails representing eras of Abraham Lincoln’s life.

The tail of the Lincoln penny entering circulation today shows a log cabin that symbolizes Lincoln’s Kentucky birthplace. The other three tails show Lincoln reading, supposedly as a young man in Indiana; Lincoln as a state lawmaker at the Illinois capitol; and the early phases of the U.S. Capitol dome.

One Lincoln penny will be released in each quarter of 2009.

New Lincoln Penny One of Four on the Way [PHOTO GALLERY] is a post from: The Inquisitr