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Seth Grahame-Smith is one of the hot writers in Hollywood these days. He grabbed the public zeitgeist by penning the novel Pride, Prejudice and Zombies first before going on to write Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a historical what if tale that imagined the 19th century President as a vampire hunter. Then Grahame-Smith made the segway into working in showbiz by performing a rewrite of Tim Burton's Dark Shadows script, selling the comedy show The Hard Times of RJ Berger to MTV and writing the screenplay for the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie coming out next year.

Grahame-Smith's next book is titled Unholy Night, and like the Abraham novel it takes a world famous historical figure and reimagines the story behind the birth of the baby Jesus Christ.

The story centers on who we know in The Bible as the Three Wise Men, the trio that witnessed the birth of Jesus and gave him three gifts of wealth. Unholy Night reimagines the wise men as three thieves on the run that accidentally get involved with Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary. Afterward, King Herod decides to kill all the firstborn children in the land, putting the infant Jesus in peril. Fantastic monsters that supposedly come from the Old Testament are in the story along with encounters with John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate.

The movie rights for Unholy Night sold to Warner Bros. for what's rumored to be $2 million bucks.

Grahame-Smith will write the Unholy Night screenplay. Harry Potter producer David Heyman, David Katzenberg and Jeffrey Clifford will produce the movie.