He was last seen screaming up a storm (for heroic reasons, not because someone just poked him with a stick) as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, but now it looks like Caleb Landry Jones will have a real reason to scream, as he’s locked in for a role in Neil Jordan’s return to all things vampiric, Byzantium.
Adapted by Moira Buffini from her own play, the film will see Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother and daughter who just so happen to be vampires. They arrive in a small British seaside town, where Ronan joins the local school and stands up in class to announce that she’s a member of the fang club. Naturally, her peers think she’s joking, but soon learn the truth.
She’ll form a closer relationship with Jones’ teenager, a lad dying of leukaemia and confronting his mortality, which in turn causes Ronan to ponder her immortality.
Jordan is getting set to make the film later this year with Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen producing via their Number 9 company after they picked up the rights to Buffini’s work in 2009.