By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER DANIEL DAY-LEWIS TO STAR AS LINCOLN FOR DREAMWORKS STUDIOS
Los Angeles, CA (November 19, 2010) – Two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis will star as the 16th President of the United States in DreamWorks Studios’ Lincoln to be directed by Steven Spielberg. The announcement was made today by Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Studios.
“Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema’s distant future. I am grateful and inspired that our paths will finally cross with Lincoln,” said Steven Spielberg. “Throughout his career, he has been exceptionally selective in his choice of material,” added Stacey Snider, “which makes us feel even more fortunate that he has chosen to join with us for Lincoln.”
Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.
It is anticipated that the film will focus 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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin won her Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time, the story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the home front in World War II. Kushner’s prize was for his play Angels in America, which later became an Emmy Award-winning television special. He had previously worked with Spielberg on Munich for which he was nominated for an Oscar in the Adapted Screenplay category.
Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney’s Touchstone distribution label.
About DreamWorks Studios
DreamWorks Studios is a motion picture company formed in 2009 and led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Upcoming releases include “I Am Number Four,” “Cowboys & Aliens,” “The Help,” “Fright Night,” “Real Steel,” and “War Horse.”
DreamWorks Studios can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DreamWorksStudios and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dw_studios.
Just as Hollywood decisively BURIED all consciousness
of the ever unfolding RED Chinese Halocaust with their
WW2 franchise —even on the Anniversary of the KOREAN WAR
—SO the Lincoln franchise is beig used to stifle
those stggeringly relevant revelations about the
‘obscure’ GARFIELD and McKINLEY assasinations —AND
the probable poisoning of HARDING.
—Fierce ANTI-Globalists ONE AND ALL.
CHECK OUT that ‘Vyzygoth Assasinations’ program on Youtube.
BLOW YOURSELF OUT OF THE FRANCHISE SLUM.
Lincoln will be the motion picture of the quarter century. And, at a time of anniversary.
Thought LINCOLN concentrates on the Team, The Dred Scott
Trial conducted in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis was the catalyst for all of it-historically-from shaping Lincoln’s anti-slavery stance to election to emancipation to war. The Courthouse IS as it was then. They may see reason for a unit to pick this up here, and may be the debate in Alton, the last or 2nd last and most heavily attended. Depends of course where Mr. Spielberg wants to ‘pick up the history’. Perhaps you could share with him? Thank you.