What's the Difference between Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter the Book and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Portrayed by: Benjamin Walker
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Henry Sturgess
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Henry Sturgess
Portrayed by: Dominic Cooper
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This Character does not appear.
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Will Johnson
Portrayed by: Anthony Mackie
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Jack Armstrong
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This Character does not appear.
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Joshua Speed
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Joshua Speed
Portrayed by: Jimmi Simpson
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Thomas Lincoln
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Thomas Lincoln
Portrayed by: Joseph Mawle
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Nancy Lincoln
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Nancy Lincoln
Portrayed by: Robin McLeavy
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Jack Barts
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Jack Barts
Portrayed by: Marton Csokas
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This Character does not appear.
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Adam
Portrayed by: Rufus Sewell
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This Character does not appear.
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Vadoma
Portrayed by: Erin Wasson
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Edgar Allan Poe
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This Character does not appear.
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William Seward
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This Character does not appear.
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Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis
Portrayed by: John Rothman
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Mary Todd Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Portrayed by: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Stephen Douglas
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This Character does not appear.
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John Wilkes Booth
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This Character does not appear.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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The Vampires have no leader. |
Adam is the leader of the Vampires. |
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When Abraham is eleven years old, his father tells him about vampires. |
Lincoln is told by Henry Sturgess about vampires after he is rescued from one at the age of twenty.
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Lincoln at age twelve, kills the vampire who was responsible for his mother's death. |
The owner of the plantation is Jack Barts, a vampire, who poisoned Lincoln's mother. Abe tries to get revenge at age twenty, but fails. He trains as a hunter for ten years and eventually gets his revenge on Barts and kills him. |
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Abe sees the slaves as the life blood of the Vampires and becomes an Abolitionist in order to stop the flow of slave blood. |
Abe wants to end slavery because of his black friend from childhood, Johnson. He is warned by Sturgess to stick to the hunting plan.
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Willie Lincoln is killed by a vampire "assassin". |
He is bitten by Vadoma, Adam's sister as a way to mock Abe. |
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Edgar Allan Poe is a friend of Abe's and warns him about the Vampires use of slaves. Poe is later murdered by a vampire. |
Poe doesn't appear.
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Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation as a way to starve the Vampires and helps turn the tide of the Civil War. |
Abe frees the slaves and that makes the Vampires go crazy and start attacking all humans. |
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A man named Jack Armstrong helps Lincoln hunt vampires for some time. |
No Jack Armstrong.
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Henry assigns Abe three vampire bodyguards. |
Abe's only companions are Willie and Joshua Speed. |
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Abe overhears his father and Barts talking about his father's debt and foreshadows his mother's death. |
Abe sees Barts biting his mother when she's sleeping.
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Vampires possess heightened strength and may kill other vampires. |
The vampires are given additional abilities (invisibility, for instance) and a weakness to silver, causing the climatic scenes to concern the aquisition of enough silver to defeat the vampires. |
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After John Wilkes Booth, a vampire, assassinates Lincoln, Henry turns Abe into a vampire, saying that some people are just to interesting to die. They fight together through World War II, and the last scene they are attending MLK's "I have a dream" speech. |
Film ends with Lincoln and Mary Todd leaving to go the Ford's theater. The movie fast forwards to present time where Henry is in a bar and says the same thing when he met Abe.
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Abe is a vampire and attends Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. |
He is assassinated and doesn't become a vampire. |