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Tuesday
10Feb2009

Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Might Be Home for Christmas

DateTuesday, February 10, 2009 at 4:47PM
One of the more intriguing projects out there is Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. He has been attached for years, and he asked Liam Neeson to play the 16th President, who if getting more play than he has in decades thanks to the election of Barack Obama.

Playwright Tony Kushner has been working on a script - dare I say slaving? - for quite a while, but last night at a symposium on Honest Abe at Harvard, he discussed where the project is, and when it might be headed to theaters. An attendee of the event called Hollywood Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells with the scoop: Kushner says a decision on Lincoln will be made in the next couple of weeks, and if the film is given the go-ahead, we'll probably see it in theaters this Christmas.

Now, before you think Spielberg can't get that done, let me remind you that he shot War of the Worlds and Munich in a whopping ten months, and edited Munich in less than three additional months, and that has to be a more challenging film than Lincoln, right? So the timetable doesn't worry me.

The timetable of the events in the film might be another story; Kushner says it will only cover two months of the president's life, presumably the last two, which means a great deal of his accomplishments won't make the film. Of course, since Kushner says the four month version of the script is 500 pages long, maybe they're doing the right thing here.

I hope it does get released around Christmas. I've been waiting for a long time to see a contemporary take on Licoln, and think the parts are finally in place to make a fantastic historical bio-pic.

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