Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

[Goober]

What else is on the menu?


All I know is The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Snow White.

This is what came to mind? You're the blackest 15 year old white girl I know.

[EmpireWF]

First official picture released of DDL in full Lincoln garb.

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Long-range paparazzi (and the occasional sneaky fellow diner) grabbed snapshots of Daniel Day-Lewis as he was shooting Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln last fall.

But in this exclusive new image from the upcoming historical drama (out Nov. 9), we finally see the My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood Oscar-winner in full character, and the result is even more uncanny than originally expected.
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Spielberg tells EW that Day-Lewis captures not just the likeness of the 16th U.S. president in the below image, but also the intangible, pensive quality that made him a great leader. “Lincoln had a very, very complicated – and at the same time, extremely clear — inner life,” the director says. “He thought things out. He talked things out. He argued both sides of every issue. And he was very careful in making any decision. As a matter of fact, his opponents and his enemies criticized him often for being impossibly slow to a decision.”
The movie has also taken a long time to get to the screen, although Spielberg made a relatively fast decision roughly a decade ago when he optioned the rights to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals, about Lincoln and his combative cabinet, when she was still just researching it. The screenplay, adapted by Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner (husband of EW columnist Mark Harris), excerpts just a portion of that 2005 best-seller.

Lincoln focuses on the last four months of the president’s ’s life and the political strategizing he undertook at the close of the Civil War to ensure that slavery would be forever outlawed. “Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition,” Spielberg says.

He said the film begins with “Lincoln’s realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil War,” Spielberg says. “He needed to abolish slavery by constitutional measure — and that’s where we start.”

Among the other central characters are David Strathairn, as Lincoln’s loyal Secretary of State, William Seward; Lincoln’s sons, Tad (Dark Shadows‘ Gulliver McGrath) and Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); his wife Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field); and “one of his most engaging and challenging adversaries, Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), a radical member of Lincoln’s own party,” Spielberg says.

3 months until it hits theaters

[NAHSTE]

This is the one where he hunts Vampires, right? If not, I'm not interested.

[MvP]

If this isn't the best movie of the past five or so years I'm gonna be disappointed.

[Argath]

This is the one where he hunts Vampires, right? If not, I'm not interested.

Can't wait for the Lincoln film to come out, should be really interesting

[Palooza]

Apparently his name has been completely dropped from the set. I guess everyone calls him Abe or some shit.

I read somewhere that they've all been calling him "Mr. President"

[EmpireWF]

Official poster

[spiker]

The resemblance is uncanny.

[Saluki]

Lewis is a great character actor. I'm surprised he hasn't done more movies

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[Palooza]

[EmpireWF]

Oh hell yeah.

[Matt]

The homie from Girls..Adam is in this. TREMENDOUS.

[Palooza]

This looks good, but it just seems like the classic biopic/inspirational/historical movie we always see. Definitely can tell it's Spielberg.

[Buzzman]

I've been experimenting a bit and now I am trying to not watch trailers to movies and go into the film a bit more blind. Seven Psychopaths will be the first film since the experiment was started but this will be the 2nd one. I don't expect this to be all that great though. I have taken a hating to Speilberg over the years.

[Palooza]

I've been experimenting a bit and now I am trying to not watch trailers to movies and go into the film a bit more blind. Seven Psychopaths will be the first film since the experiment was started but this will be the 2nd one. I don't expect this to be all that great though. I have taken a hating to Speilberg over the years.

Watching War Horse was your own mistake.