Is Saoirse Ronan the latest young talent to be cloned so that she can be attached to many projects at once? That appears to be the case. She’s already scheduled for The Host, may be in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Emma Thompson’s Effie, and the latest is a film called Byzantium, a ‘mother-daughter’ vampire tale co-starring Gemma Arterton that Neil Jordan will direct.

The news is that the film is based on an original script by Moira Buffini, who scripted the recent version of Jane Eyre, and is about “a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire and the pair form a lethal partnership, sometimes posing as sisters.” The script is based on her own play A Vampire Story, and we reported on the play-to-film conversion back in 2009.

Neil Jordan, of course, got in on the vampire craze before there was a vampire craze, directing Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and a then-unknown Kirsten Dunst in the not-so-great Anne Rice adaptation Interview With the Vampire. He was also ahead of the current fairy tale craze with The Company of Wolves in 1984. In fact, this film will be produced by The Company of Woolves producer Stephen Wooley.

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