Caleb Landry Jones joins Neil Jordan’s vampire tale Byzantium

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Up-and-comer Caleb Landry Jones has joined the Neil Jordan-directed vampire drama BYZANTIUM, reports Variety.
He joins Saoirse Ronan (HANNA) and Gemma Arterton ( HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS ) in the film, which is based on the Moira Buffini play.

Jones was recently seen in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS as “Banshee” (pictured above). He also made a memorable appearance in last summer’s THE LAST EXORCISM as the creepy brother.

Here’s the synopsis of the play the film is based on:

Two young women arrive in a nameless British smalltown. Their names are not their own. They don’t declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter? The eldest, Claire, takes a job in a pub. The youngest, Eleanor, goes to school.

During a truth exercise in her drama class, Eleanor confesses that she has been alive for over two hundred years and has survived by drinking human blood. Her classmates think she is utterly crazy and Mint, her teacher, puts her in touch with the school counsellor. She makes one friend, Frank, a boy who has been home educated and is as much of an oddity as Eleanor. He tries to get to the bottom of her vampire delusion, thinking it an epic and compelling psychosis. Why would anyone want to be undead?

Jones will play “Frank”, who is also dying of leukemia and questioning his own mortality. Perfect that he ends up being friends with an immortal vampire then, eh?

Gemma Arterton