Monday, November 22, 2010

DAY-LEWIS TO PLAY ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis has signed to play Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming biopic about the 16th president of the US.

Spielberg and DreamWorks' Stacey Snider announced the casting today, reports Coming Soon.

"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," Spielberg said.

The film is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team of Rivals.

The movie will reportedly dramatise Lincoln's clashes with the men in his cabinet while dealing with abolition and the end of the Civil War.

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