Vampires are definitely hot right now. Daybreakers is yet another vampire project, written and directed by the Spierig brothers (Undead). Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and Isabel Lucas star. In the year 2019 the world is so overrun with vampires that humanity is on the verge of extinction, which in itself is an extreme danger to the vampire population for obvious reasons. Ethan Hawke plays a hematologist caught between creating an artificial blood source and helping the human survivors reverse their dive towards extinction.
It actually looks rather cool, with an interesting future world and a premise that allows the filmmakers to simultaneously explore humanity’s self-destructive tendencies and its will to survive.
Daybreakers will be released by Lionsgate on January 8th, 2010.
