LOS ANGELES  - Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim vs. the World") will play the first lady in the period vampire adventure "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

She'll star opposite Benjamin Walker, in the title role as America's multi-tasking 16th president.

Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") is directing "Vampire Hunter," based on the book by Seth Grahame-Smith. Dominic Cooper and Anthony Mackie also star in the Fox project.