History Trivia / AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter

* ReferencedBy: "Chapter 21: OMAKE 3 Halloween":

* IKnewIt: Raise your hand if you ''didn't'' know that [[spoiler:Henry was a vampire the first time you saw him]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $69 million. Box office, $37,519,139 (domestic), $116,471,580 (worldwide). One of several 2012 busts to have Creator/TimBurton credited.

** Creator/AdrienBrody and Creator/JoaquinPhoenix were considered to play Lincoln and Henry respectively. Brody was one of the final choices before losing out to Benjamin Walker while Phoenix turned down the role to do ''Film/TheMaster''. With Phoenix's penchant for MethodActing, the film could have been somewhat CrazyAwesome.

* FakeAmerican: The English Creator/DominicCooper as Abe Lincoln.

* CreatorKiller: Director Timur Bekmanbetov didn't direct again for another 4 years.
* TheDanza: Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Mary Lincoln.

* SelfAdaptation: The screenplay was co-written by the novel's author, Seth Grahame-Smith.

** Music/TrentReznor was approached about scoring and playing a minor part in the film, but the news leaked before the final decision and Reznor voted to pass on the project as the surprise element of his participation had already been lost.

* ActorAllusion: When Abraham goes after the Vampire who killed his mother, the latter announces that it's 'Abraham fucking Lincoln' in much the same way that UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson announces that he's 'Andrew fucking Jackson' in ''Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson''. Benjamin Walker (who plays Lincoln) originated the role of Jackson.

* NoStuntDouble: Dominic Cooper trained to be able to do a lot of his own stunt work with an axe.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: On the DVD commentary, the author relates that some of the film's detractors say it is "the worst thing to happen to Abraham Lincoln in the theatre." He's chuckling as he tells this to the audience.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/AdrienBrody and Creator/JoaquinPhoenix were considered to play Lincoln and Henry respectively. Brody was one of the final choices before losing out to Benjamin Walker while Phoenix turned down the role to do ''Film/TheMaster''. With Phoenix's penchant for method acting, the film could have been somewhat CrazyAwesome.

* ActorAllusion: When Abraham goes after the Vampire who killed his mother, the latter announces that it's 'Abraham fucking Lincoln' in much the same way that AndrewJackson announces that he's 'Andrew fucking Jackson' in ''Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson''. Benjamin Walker (who plays Lincoln) originated the role of Jackson.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Lincoln got his badass genes from [[Series/GameOfThrones Benjen Stark]].
** Henry? Did you ever take the name [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Howard Stark]]?
** [[Series/{{Firefly}} Wash!]] Why are you supporting southern states slavery!?!
** Mary Todd is [[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Ramona Flowers]] - Abe even kills seven times before they can safely be together!
** Speed? I thought his name was [[Series/{{Psych}} Mary Lightly]]?
*** Or perhaps he is [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Liam McPoyle]], or even [[RoseRed Kevin Bollinger]]?
** A partial example (in that you probably wouldn't actually recognize him without looking it up) is Jack Barts, who also played Celeborn in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies.
*** He also played Poggle the Lesser in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel, [[Film/AeonFlux Trevor Goodchild]], and the villain in the first Film/{{xXx}} movie.
** Will Johnson is [[Film/EightMile Papa Doc]]. I guess he decided that the rap life wasn't for him and decides to help out Honest Abe instead.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** In the Japanese dub:
*** [[Creator/HideoIshikawa Abraham Lincoln is]] [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi Uchiha]] and [[Manga/GetterRobo Ryoma Nagare in the OVAs]]. This counts as HilariousInHindsight if you take into account his role as [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi]]: [[spoiler: especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' when he came BackFromTheDead thanks to Kabuto's Edo Tensei technique as a zombie, just like Lincoln returns from the dead as a vampire in the original book]].
*** [[HiroakiHirata Henry Sturges is]] [[Manga/OnePiece Sanji]], [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Kotetsu T. Kaburagi]] and [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Pip Bernandotte]]. [[spoiler:It makes his role in the movie also pretty hilarious if you know Pip becomes a vampire almost at the end of the series, compared with Henry, who is a vampire from the start]].
*** [[Creator/KentaMiyake William H. Johnson is]] [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Bobby Margot]].
*** [[Creator/RomiPark Vadoma is]] [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]].[[note]]Not surprising, since she already voiced another [[Film/QueenOfTheDamned vampire girl before.]][[/note]]

** Mary Todd is [[ScottPilgrim Ramona Flowers]] - Abe even kills seven times before they can safely be together!

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/AdrienBrody and Creator/JoaquinPhoenix were considered to play Lincoln and Henry respectively. Brody was one of the final choices before losing out to Benjamin Walker while Phoenix turned down the role to do ''TheMaster''. With Phoenix's penchant for method acting, the film could have been somewhat CrazyAwesome.

** Speed? I thought his name was [[{{Psych}} Mary Lightly]]?
*** Or perhaps he is [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Liam McPoyle]], or even [[RoseRed Kevin Bollinger]]?

*** He also played Poggle the Lesser in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel, [[Film/AeonFlux Trevor Goodchild]], and the villain in the first {{xXx}} movie.

*** [[Creator/HideoIshikawa Abraham Lincoln is]] [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi Uchiha]] and [[GetterRobo Ryoma Nagare in the OVAs]]. This counts as HilariousInHindsight if you take into account his role as [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi]]: [[spoiler: especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' when he came BackFromTheDead thanks to Kabuto's Edo Tensei technique as a zombie, just like Lincoln returns from the dead as a vampire in the original book]].

*** [[KentaMiyake William H. Johnson is]] [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Bobby Margot]].

*** He also played Poggle the Lesser in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel, [[AeonFlux Trevor Goodchild]], and the villain in the first {{xXx}} movie.

*** [[HideoIshikawa Abraham Lincoln is]] [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi Uchiha]] and [[GetterRobo Ryoma Nagare in the OVAs]]. This counts as HilariousInHindsight if you take into account his role as [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi]]: [[spoiler: especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' when he came BackFromTheDead thanks to Kabuto's Edo Tensei technique as a zombie, just like Lincoln returns from the dead as a vampire in the original book]].

** Lincoln got his badass genes from [[GameOfThrones Benjen Stark]].