Styletraxx has learned that slacker actor Ethan Hawke has just signed on to star in the futuristic vampire film "Daybreakers." Hawke will play a researcher in the year 2017, when a plague has transformed most of the world's population into vampires. Ethan most recently wrote / directed the indie movie "The Hottest State," based on his novel, which premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival. He next stars in Sydney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows you're Dead."