BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Casting Update For Spielberg's "Lincoln"

Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross are in negotiations to join the cast of DreamWorks Studios' "Lincoln," according to DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider.

Also in negotiations to join the film are David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky. This group joins the previously announced casting of Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field in the Spielberg directed film about the 16th President of the United States.

Based on the best-selling book, "Team of Rivals", by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner and Oscar nominated writer Tony Kushner.

"Lincoln" will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, focusing on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.


Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones will play 'Thaddeus Stevens', a Republican leader and powerful congressman from Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives. Stevens was a staunch supporter of abolishing slavery and was critical to writing the legislation that funded the American Civil War.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Inception") will take on the role of 'Robert Todd Lincoln', eldest son of President Lincoln and the only one to live past his teenage years.


Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 in Virginia for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney’s Touchstone distribution label.

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