DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ for Christmas 2009?

  • Josh_Radde · 9 months ago
    NO! No Johnny Depp. He cannot be in this movie, I'm sorry.
  • DMuff · 9 months ago
    They should just take their time on this one.
  • Corey Atad · 9 months ago
    I'd like to remind everyone that Schindler's List, one of the single greatest films ever made, and which dealt with subject matter far more difficult began its shooting in July and was released in December of that same year. If anyone could pull this off it's Spielberg.
  • CMW · 9 months ago
    Doesn't Spielberg tend to shoot and edit concurrently, now? I remember reading that he did that on Saving Private Ryan. Not that that was his best film, but if he shot pretty close to the edit, he could, realistically, make a good film pretty quickly.
  • blckmanjew · 9 months ago
    Since it is Speilberg will it be "Lincoln Goes to Space" ??
  • Violet · 9 months ago
    Johnny Depp is too old to play John Wilkes Booth who was 27 when he assasinated Lincoln. It has been suggested than anyone from Hugh Dancy to James Franco should play him.
  • Nicole C. · 9 months ago
    oo, I like the james franco idea :)
    But I think Spielberg is good at finding 'new' talent, so maybe I'll just hope for that.
    This was one of the first movies i read about on IMDB, eons ago it seems.
    I really hope it isn't rushed because it's Abe's 200th birth-year and all this Obama mania making people patriotic. I'm not objecting to that, but it's not a good reason to rush a movie.
  • TDC · 9 months ago
    If Spielberg goes with Le Boeuf for Wilkes Booth, I'll be committing an assassination of my own...

    TDC
  • Aleric · 9 months ago
    The only reason they are bringing this out is due to PEBO.

    Is the Obama Derangement Syndrome ever going to stop? Let me guess they are going to have PEBO introduce the movie as well?
  • RobinRuinsky · 9 months ago
    Development of Spielberg's Lincoln goes back to 2006 so I think attempts to politicize the film have no merit.
    I suspect Abraham Lincoln can somehow stand on his own as the subject of a film.
    Hugh Dancy's a good choice for Booth. I just threw the question out there. I suspect Booth won't get too much screen time.
  • Richard Clark · 7 months ago
    If the movie is about Tony Kushner’s screenplay, then it doesn't seem to be based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book which was more about his entire life and his cabinet members. And, WHY for the love of God, does everyone focus on John Wilkes Booth? Yes, please don't give that character so much screen time. He should be a footnote compared to what Lincoln did in his life.