It’s amazing what being in a big budget critically loved action movie can do for a person’s career. Fresh off his role in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, studios are tripping over themselves to get this man in their movies. The latest offering at the feet of Tom Hardy is the role of Henry Sturges in the upcoming movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [Bloody Disgusting].

Adapted from the book by Seth Grahame-Smith, the story mixes horror with history as it follows Abraham Lincoln’s secret campaign to eradicate vampires after he finds out that they killed his mother when he was nine years old. In the book, Sturges is a vampire who rescues Lincoln when he is sixteen years old from a vampire attack. Nursing him back to health, he teaches the young soon to be President about vampirism and helps train him so he is better equipped to deal with the menace. Think of him as the Merrick to Abraham Lincoln’s Buffy (yeah that’s right I like the 1992 movie more, big whoop wanna fight about it?).

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton, and it’s tentatively slated for June 22, 2012.

Should Tom Hardy teach our greatest president to lay the smack down on vampires, or should the role go to someone else?