From /Film (via Variety): Eric Bana, absent from any leading roles since last year’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, is evidently in talks to join the cast of The Counterfeiters director Stephen Ruzowitzky‘s thriller KIN. If cast, Bana would join Tron: Legacy‘s Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnan.
Written by Zach Dean, KIN’s unofficial synopsis is as follows:
“Two desperate sibling fugitives (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) on the run who subsequently collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer (Hunnam).”
KIN shoots in March 2011.
And what about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Tim Burton was rumored as director at one point, but Wanted helmer Timur Bekmambetov has the job (with Burton producing), and an article in The Wrap buzzes about Bana’s possible involvement:
“[Bana is] scheduled to meet with director Timur Bekmambetov soon, and is certainly in contention for the part.”
Which, as always, could mean almost anything.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, is the latest revisionist-history-with-monsters project in the pipeline. Similar projects include Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which Mike White will be directing and the as-yet-undeveloped novels Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenina, (I’m not making this up), both by their respective authors and Ben H. Winters.
What do you think of Bana as Abe Lincoln as a vampire killer? How much method acting would it require?