Universal Looks to Acquire Vampires & Zombies Flick ‘Bethlehem’

20th Century Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (read our review) opens in theaters today. It is the just the latest in a long line of vampire flicks to flood the market this year, alongside such films as Underworld: Awakening and Dark Shadows (among others).

Universal must be banking on the prospect that moviegoers aren’t completely tired of films belonging to that horror sub-genre; new reports reveal that the studio is in talks to pick up an original script titled Bethlehem – which features both vampires and zombies.

The word from Variety is that Universal has entered final negotiations to acquire Bethlehem; the Black-listed spec script was written by relative newcomer Larry Brenner. Joe Roth and Palak Patel (Snow White and the Huntsman) are already in line to produce the film. Furthermore, Snow White visual effects supervisor/second ...

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