Oscar Winner Trent Reznor to Score - and Act in - 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'

If this was 1994 and you saw that headline your head just might explode.

FIrst, that angry guy from Nine Inch Nails is doing movie scores now? Just how awesome have movies gotten anyway? And he's going to PLAY a vampire? And, wait, at some point he won an Academy Award? I thought they only gave that to Disney movies and John Williams? And why in holy hell is Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires?

Welcome to 2011. Postmodernism rules all.

So yes, Trent Reznor will not only be scoring David Fincher's adaptation of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," but Badass Digest is reporting that he landed a job scoring "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" for Timur Bekmanbetov (director of "Wanted," a movie for people who hate everything). And, because he's Trent Reznor, he landed a part in the movie, as the vampire who killed Lincoln's mom. You were probably just asleep for that part of grade school.

As much as people bemoan the Academy Awards, that's largely in not recognizing what an incredible boost it can be to an artist's career. Screenwriters will suddenly be approached to direct, actors will be offered more roles than they can get their hands around; even composers will start to see their name bandied about as a bit of a brand.

That said, most don't parlay that success into "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." They tend to shoot for "The King's Speech 2: The Reckoning." So bully for you, Trent Reznor. Hopefully he'll be bringing along Atticus Ross, who wove Reznor's musings into magic in "The Social Network," an unexpected gig that they knocked out of the park.