Variety reports that New Regency has acquired the film rights to Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, an illustrated novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and novelist Christopher Golden.

David Goyer will direct, and the authors will write the screenplay.

Released last month by Bantam, the novel tells the story of Lord Henry Baltimore, who is bitten by a vampire on a World War I battlefield, unleashing an evil plague that destroys his family and threatens to devour all of mankind.

Baltimore will be produced by John Baldecchi and Stacy Maes.

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