Four Score and Seven Milkshakes Ago: Daniel Day-Lewis Will Play Lincoln for Steven Spielberg

· Hide the bowling pins! Steven Spielberg announced today that he's cast Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in his long, long, long gestating adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals. Titled Lincoln -- and adapted by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Tony Kushner -- the film will shoot next fall with an eye toward a release in the fourth quarter of 2012. Catch your breath from that announcement, then click ahead for more Buzz Break.

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· Not to be outdone by Spielberg and DDL, Leonard DiCaprio will star in Legacy of Secrecy, a new film about the Kennedy assassination. Of course between Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover film, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and an adaptation of the best-selling book, Devil in the White City, just when DiCaprio plans on making Secrecy is up for debate. [Vulture]

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· Michael Caine says The Dark Knight Rises will start shooting in May of 2011. Get excited? [/Film]



Comments

  • casting couch says:

    I love the title of this article.

  • bierce says:

    Bad news for whoever plays Tad.

  • Anne Chastain Carroll says:

    Colour me confused! Earlier in the year, I read where Liam Neeson was to play President Lincoln. What happened to that? Both Mr. Neeson and Mr. Day-Lewis were not born in Illinois. Are there no native-born actors who could play this role?