Steven Spielberg has said that he’s finally ready to get his Lincoln up and running. Spielberg’s film on Lincoln has been his “next” project for several years now. In fact, Liam Neeson was first cast as Abraham Lincoln for the film more than three years ago. Heck, the man has been prepping for the role so long he’s thinking of running for president.
Lincoln actually won’t be Spielberg’s next film, however. That honor goes to Spielberg’s part of the Tintin trilogy which he will be filming this fall. Spielberg, however, is quite good at filming back to back films (anyone remember the one-two punch of Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in 1993?) and he’s said that he’s planning a start date for Lincoln of early next year. Spielberg has a strong script by Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner ready to go.
The director had been prepping the Aaron Sorkin scripted The Trial of the Chicago Seven, but the writer’s strike put a hold on rewrites he needed. Spielberg had already enlisted Sacha Baron Cohen and had already talked to other high profile A-list actors (reportedly including Will Smith) about starring in the drama about the trial of anti-Vietnam war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, but the rewrites put everything behind schedule. Apparently, Spielberg no longer feels he can make that project work at this time.
I’d much rather have the Lincoln project come together anyway. It sounds much more like something I’d want to see than the other film. I’m thinking that if he can get it shot early next year they can have it out just in time for Oscar season in 2009.
Wow, seeing a Lincoln film from Spielberg would be awesome…he does such a good job with those things.
“Steven Spielberg has said that he’s finally ready to get his Lincoln up and running” – that’s what she said.
You are on a roll today
Awesome – I love biopics and Spielberg does them extremely well.
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Maybe Spielberg can get Aaron Sorkin involved in the Lincoln project… Sorkin does political dialog like nobody else. I really enjoy his rapid-fire bantering style.
Makes me think a little bit of Tarintino’s sharp-witted dialog – I’m not crazy about QT’s movies, but I’ve always admired the dialog his characters have.
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@Jina – LOL
@Rob – Can you imagine a movie about Lincoln with Tarintino’s dialog? Man, that would be some kind of crazy. lol
@ Jason – now that would be a riot. What is funny is that after my wife and I saw the new Indy trailer at Iron Man I told her I thought that pairing up Spielberg with Tarantino in a movie would be genius – but crazy is probably a better way to describe it.
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I can’t imagine a Tarantino version of Lincoln without Samuel Jackson/Jules. “Say ‘what’ on more time Booth!” lol
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LOL
No, it’d be this: “Say you support slavery one more time! I wanna hear you say it!
“Look at the big brain on Booth”
@Jason & Ape -great stuff
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The bigger question is would Abe throw Booth off a balcony onto a greenhouse roof for giving Mary Todd a foot massage? I guessing he would, Abe was a Badass! Maybe that’s why Booth shot him hmmmmm.
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@ Scotty – now that sounds like an interesting BA bracket – Presidential Bad Asses…Who would win in a scrap between Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan? I would put my money on “Honest” Abe!
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@Ape – I don’t know Ronnie backed the Soviets down. He’s def the biggest BA president of the last century or at least up there with Teddy R.
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@Ape watch the Music video of Two Tribes (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Regan was an Arse kicker!!!
Hey – I’m as big a Reagan fan as there is, but seriously – he was old and slow. Abe is thin and wiry – I would bet anything he fights dirty. I just envision a little Fight Club action going down.
And one other thing – who knows what Abe has hidden in that hat of his.
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It’s also a historical fact that Lincoln had a high pitched voice…just thought I’d add that for visual effect.
I hope you mean audio effect because I can’t see sound waves.
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You can’t? Weird.
It’s my genetic disorder (ugh, that sounds like a Scrubs episode…)
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