In 2010, Hawke starred as a vampire hematologist in the science fiction horror film "Daybreakers". Filmed in Australia with the Spierig brothers, the feature received reasonable reviews, and earned US$51 million worldwide. His next role was in Antoine Fuqua's "Brooklyn's Finest" as a corrupt narcotics officer. The film opened in March to a mediocre reception, yet his performance was well received, with the New York "Daily News" concluding, "Hawke—continuing an evolution toward stronger, more intense acting than anyone might've predicted from him 20 years ago—drives the movie." In the 2011 television adaptation of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick", Hawke played the role of Starbuck, the first officer to William Hurt's Captain Ahab. He then starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in Paweł Pawlikowski's "The Woman in the Fifth", a "lush puzzler" about an American novelist struggling to rebuild his life in Paris.