John Carpenter, Hillary Swank in Fangland
Here is another one of those books to movies adaptation and this time, John Carpenter, known for his films like Escape From New York, Halloween and Prince of Darkness, is set to direct John Mark’s novel, Fangland. The book was released in 2007 and it is about vampires in post 9/11 setting.
Setting sites on who should play the lead, Evageline, Hillary Swank is supposedly being eyed to play the role.
Here’s a bit of plot summary of Fangland from Wiki:
Evangeline Harker, Associate Producer on television news magazine “The Hour”, is sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss named Ion Torgu. But she finds the true nature of Torgu’s activities to be far more monstrous than she could have imagined. In the New York office that once stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, Evangeline’s disappearance causes uproar and a wave of guilt and recrimination. Then suddenly, months after her disappearance, she’s found convalescing in a Transylvanian monastery, her memory seemingly scrubbed. But then who was sending e-mails in her name? And what do those crates delivered to the office contain?And why does the show’s sound system appear to be infected with some strange aural virus? As a very dark Old-World atmosphere deepens in the halls of one of America’s most trusted television programmes, its employees are forced to confront a threat beyond their wildest imaginings
Should this project come into fruition, Fangland would have to be Carpenter’s return to directing. And fans of horror movies should be looking forward to this.
Horror movies are as much a part of American culture as baseball and apple pie. Unlike the latter however, they tend to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain. 
