Vampires are overrated but I'd watch everything Colin Firth is in okay
The King's Speech star Colin Firth is set to become a creepy vampire called Stoker for his next movie, it has emerged.
The 50-year-old Oscar winner is to join Nicole Kidman, 43, and Alice In Wonderland star Mia Wasikowska, 21, in the film, which is inspired by Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula.
The film has been written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller and tells the story of a girl called India and her mother who are visited by a mysterious uncle after India’s father dies.
Nicole would play the mother with Colin as the uncle and Mia as the girl.
Today's News Of The World reports that some of the scenes are a world away from Colin's award-winning portrayal as the stuttering King George VI - and more like classic vampire movies starring the likes of Christopher Lee.
The paper says that in on scene, he stabs a victim in the neck with scissors and beats someone else to death with a tree branch.
A source told the paper: 'It's dark, modern and creepy. He's going out on a limb with this part.'
Colin joked onstage in Los Angeles last month as he accepted his Best Actor Academy Award that: 'I have a feeling my career's just peaked.'
Afterwards, he told the BBC that he was looking forward to having a break from King George VI, known to his family and speech therapist as Bertie.
He said: 'I've started having fantasies about what I'll do.'
He also revealed to BBC Radio 4: 'I want to do something that amuses me now that changes the pace, changes the tone, continue my long tradition of making a fool of myself.'
Meanwhile, Colin has also signed to star in Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of Gambit starring Cameron Diaz.
However, the star will next appear on the big screen in the film version of John Le Carre's classic spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which he's already filmed.
Also starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Benedict Cumberbatch, it opens in the UK in September and is directed by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, the man behind the lens for the acclaimed Let The Right One In.
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Colin killing people? YES PLEASE
Also who else is excited for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? THAT CAST UNFFFFFFFF BENEDICT AND COLIN OMFG
