Saoirse Ronan And Gemma Arterton Are Vampires On The Prowl In Neil Jordan's BYZANTIUM

It has been a while since The Crying Game and The Butcher Boy director Neil Jordan worked with the sort of dark material where he built his international reputation but that is about to change in a big way.

Jordan begins principal photography in December on Byzantium, a UK / Ireland co-production that stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother-daughter duo of vampires on the hunt. Sam Riley (Control) and Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men First Class, Antiviral) costar with the script coming from Jane Eyre's Moira Buffini.

Production is scheduled to conclude in February so a late 2012 debut on the fest circuit - I'm looking at you, Toronto - would appear likely.