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Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy

The rest is history. But not the usual kind.

As the Lincolns depart, a vampire stares from his perch on the South Portico of the White House.

This is a film set, at the 179-year-old Evergreen Plantation here, and the cast and crew of the movie, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” are scrambling to deliver a summer blockbuster. It is set for release, in 3-D, by 20th Century Fox in June of next year.

The filmmakers are also creating one of the more startling historical revisions in movie memory. Their Lincoln, you see, is a devoted slayer of the undead.

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