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.