Lincoln

[wofford29]

I was thinking about this the other day. When this film finally happens, the inevitable Abe Lincoln figure petitions are going to pop up (Sideshows doesn't count). I was wondering in situations like this, would you want a figure based on Lewis' likeness as Abe or one based on Abe himself? I think looking at the DiD figure of Richard Winters got me thinking about this. Seems a bit odd to have a figure of an actor portraying a real person, but I can't say myself which I'd prefer.

edit: Sorry if anyone caught wood when they saw this thread on the first page again.

 

[IronFingaz]

Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to 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.

Sally Field joins Daniel Day-Lewis, who has been cast to play Abraham Lincoln in the Spielberg film.

"I'm excited to be working with Sally for the first time,” said Steven Spielberg. “I've admired her films and she has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln."

“To have the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis and to play one of the most complicated and colorful women in American history is simply as good as it gets,” said Sally Field.

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.

Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award winner as Best Actress in a Leading Role for her roles in “Places in the Heart” and “”Norma Rae.” Field won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special for her role in “Sybil.” She won her second Emmy for her guest starring role on the long-running drama, “E.R.” Her other film credits include “Steel Magnolias,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” and “Forrest Gump.” Field currently stars in the ABC series “Brothers & Sisters” for which she won an Emmy in 2007.

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.

https://www.deadline.com/2011/04/sally-field-joins-steven-spielbergs-abraham-lincoln-film/

 

[Michael Crawford]

I am looking forward to this film...but I'd love to see Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter turned into a flick as well.

 

[karamazov80]

First I've noticed this thread. Ford would be awful in this, IMO. He just doesn't have the range. Would be Ford with a funny hat and beard being Ford. Might as well pick Leo damn DiCaprio. Day-Lewis is a good choice.

I hope they expand on his career as a wrestler. Then take lots of artistic liberties, examining what would have happened if Abe became a world renowned pro wrestler. Wrestling bears, midgets, etc.

 

[Calcifer]

Well feckit the british often claim Irish people as their own so why shouldn't I do it in the reverse.

I'd still consider him Irish as one of his parents was Irish and he has both British and Irish citizenship. I believe he currently lives in Ireland but he also has a home in America.

 

[IronFingaz]

I am looking forward to this film...but I'd love to see Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter turned into a flick as well.

It's slated for next summer

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I'd watch it

 

[Michael Crawford]

Well, I'll be - yea, I'll be watching that one for sure! And it may end up beating this one out to the theater.

 

[meth head]

The cast for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln continues to amass greatness. According to Deadline, Jackie Earle Haley will be the latest terrific actor to hop on board the Abraham Lincoln biopic. Haley will play Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens (pictured above), who in 1861 proclaimed, “Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.” Charming. And here’s a fun fact: despite being the Vice President of the Confederacy, Stephens was re-elected to Congress during Reconstruction.

Haley joins a cast that also features Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, James Spader, Walton Goggins, Tim Blake Nelson, and Lee Pace. As we reported yesterday, Lincoln will focus on the last four months of Lincoln’s life and Spielberg plans to release the film in 2012 after the Presidential election.

 

[wofford29]

Is it too early to give this every award at this years Oscars?

 

[The Ringer]

DDL FTW!

 

[MarfMaster]

Damn, he looks ace! I wonder how much makeup/prosthetic work is going on there.

 

[wofford29]

This may be the best cast ever assembled.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

That's some great make up effects

 

[uscmhicks]

Damn , he looks better than I thought he would.

 

[civiclx]

I'm not totally feelin' the picture but hell, he could dress up as bozo the clown and still nail the role

 

[Biojex]

Looks fantastic so far.

 

[kobayashi93]

Just give the man Oscar #3 based on that pic alone.

 

[Rackemup]

This movie will be one awesome piece of work. To bad when I was a kid this film wasn't around for US history. Instead we saw some PBS show about Lincoln on rainy days

 

[wofford29]

I'm really curious how Day Lewis approaches Lincoln's voice. Here are a few quotes about his voice...

Lincoln's voice was, when he first began speaking, shrill, squeaking, piping, unpleasant; his general look, his form, his pose, the color of his flesh, wrinkled and dry, his sensitiveness, and his momentary diffidence, everything seemed to be against him, but he soon recovered.
--William H. Herndon letter, July 19, 1887

But whenever he began to talk his eyes flashed and every facial movement helped express his idea and feeling. Then involuntarily vanished all thought or consciousness of his uncouth appearance, or awkward manner, or even his high keyed, unpleasant voice.
--Abram Bergen in Intimate Memories of Lincoln

The [second] inaugural address was received in most profound silence. Every word was clear and audible as the ringing and somewhat shrill tones of Lincoln's voice sounded over the vast concourse.
--Noah Brooks in Washington in Lincoln's Time