Hawke to play vampire

Ethan Hawke is set to sink his teeth into a new vampire role opposite Willem Dafoe.

The Before Sunset star is growing his hair in preparation for the neck-biting role in Daybreakers, which he'll shoot in Australia.

He says: "I'm going to make a vampire picture and I'm going to chew on some necks.

"Willem Dafoe and I are duelling vampires. It's a vampire movie set way in the future where everyone is a vampire and we're all eating our own resources, so we're trying to get off on foreign humans.

"We're trying to get off of trying to create blood substitutes. It's a big analogy about what's going on now. It's really dark and weird and everybody's sucking each other's blood."