Ethan Hawke signed on for the lead in a vampire movie.
Ethan Hawke has signed on to topline Lionsgate’s futuristic vampire film “Daybreakers.”
Australian horror veterans Peter and Michael Spierig (“Undead”) wrote and will helm the high-concept project, which begins shooting in July in Australia, with Weta Workshop creating the creature effects.
Hawke will play a researcher in the year 2017, when a plague has transformed most of the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a discovery that has the power to save the human race.
Ethan and I have had a love affair ever since “The Explorers” only he doesn’t know it. I recently watched that movie again with my sons – and I still liked it. River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke? Doesn’t get much better than that.
