According to Variety, Anthony Mackieis set to join fellow stage star Benjamin Walker in 20th Century Fox's 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.' Mackie will play Lincoln's vampire slaying friend, 'Will.' Also set to co-star are Dominic Cooper, Alan Tudyk, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, and Robin McLeavy.
Seth Grahame-Smith will write the screeplay for the movie, and Timur Bekmambetov is set to direct. Aiming for a release in June of 2012, the film is about 'the president's quest to rid the world of vampires, presented as part of the conflict behind the Civil War.'
In March 2008, Mackie starred in three plays by playwright August Wilson at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Washington DC: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Jitney - all part of "August Wilson's 20th Century", a month-long presentation of ten staged readings of Wilson's "Century Cycle". In the summer of 2009, he played the role of Pentheus in the New York City Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae. He starred with Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, which opened February 15, 2010.
He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for his role in The Hurt Locker. This is Mackie's second ISA nomination, the first coming for his work in 2003 in Brother to Brother, where he was nominated for Best Actor. Also in 2009, Mackie portrayed rapper Tupac Shakur in the film Notorious.
