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[Mgoblue201]

Seward is a fascinating person, and I'd really like to see what David Strathairn can do with this.

 

[Max Armstrong]

Is it 2012 yet? Can't wait for this fuuu-

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Walter Goggins added to the cast.
http://www.slashfilm.com/walton-goggins-cast-steven-spielbergs-lincoln/

 

[Solo]

Its Walton, bitch!

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I'm going to leave it as Walter.

 

[Devolution]

I think DDL is a tall mofo, definitely above 6' in height. The challenging part will be to show others around him as shorter.

That top hat will definitely do wonders though.

Just some lifts outta do him.

 

[Solo]

I'm going to come to Sydney and make you change it!

For serious though, sometime next year I'm going to finally take my talents to Australia for a vacation.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I'd come at the start or toward the end of the year if you want to avoid our shitty winter and instead enjoy our excellent summer.

 

[Solo]

Yeah, I was thinking January (which sounds batshit insane because January is the coldest month of the year here in Canada). Good time of year?

 

[lucius]

I think this will be good!

 

[Zeliard]

Look at this goddamn cast:

At the very least he’ll be in excellent company. The cast includes: Sally Field, who’ll play Mary Todd Lincoln; Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens; David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward; Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln; and Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross, with David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky in smaller parts.

And of course Daniel Day-Lewis.

Buncha great character actors in there.

 

[JMB]

This should be good, looking forward to it.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Yeah, I was thinking January (which sounds batshit insane because January is the coldest month of the year here in Canada). Good time of year?

Yep!

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Lee Pace joins the cast.

http://www.slashfilm.com/lee-pace-joins-steven-spielbergs-lincoln/

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Jackie Earl Haley as Alexander Stephens!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/jackie-earle-haley-joins-steven-spielbergs-lincoln/

 

[bengraven]

Jackie Earl Haley as Alexander Stephens!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/jackie-earle-haley-joins-steven-spielbergs-lincoln/

Oh wow, Haley playing a non-psychopath for once! I'm all for seeing what he can d

He is remembered for an infamous speech in which he said that slavery was the “natural condition of blacks and the cornerstone of the Confederacy.”

--- oh.

 

[afternoon delight]

Going to try to grab some on-set pictures while they're filming here... Really just want to get within talking distance to the gods Spielberg and Lewis....

 

[Expendable.]

John Williams scoring, duh - http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045838/

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

I can't believe this thing's finally happening. It feels like we've been talking about it for a decade.

 

[ROBOKITTYZILLA]

This is going to be amazing.

 

[Expendable.]

I can't believe a pic of DDL as Lincoln hasn't leaked yet, with it deep into production.

 

[Ricky_R]

I honestly couldn't have thought of someone better for the role. He has the looks and talent by the truckload.

 

[Blader]

Jared Harris is Ulysses S. Grant

http://collider.com/jared-harris-lincoln-steven-spielberg/128988/

 

[Escape Goat]

I love Lincoln movies/documentaries. He was President during a very critical time in the progression of America and analyzing the decisions and seeing the consequences of not having taken that action always fascinates me. Then you get to play "Alternate reality" where you start to think what Lincoln had done during Reconstruction had he not been assassinated.

Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I love Lincoln movies/documentaries. He was President during a very critical time in the progression of America and analyzing the decisions and seeing the consequences of not having taken that action always fascinates me. Then you get to play "Alternate reality" where you start to think what Lincoln had done during Reconstruction had he not been assassinated.

Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.

Except that Munich is the bravest and most mature film he's ever made. This even has the same writer as Munich, Tony Kushner.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

Tony Kushner is brilliant. Angles in America blows me away every time I see it performed.

 

[FStop7]

Tony Kushner is brilliant. Angles in America blows me away every time I see it performed.

 

[Plasmid]

I'VE ABANDONED THE CONFEDERACY.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

lol. D'oh. Too late to stealth edit now.

Edit: This one seems more fitting:

 

[Speevy]

I'VE ABANDONED THE CONFEDERACY.

I...FREED YOUR...SLAVES!

I'VE FREED THEM UP!

 

[Expendable.]

Variety's @TheInSneider:

Word around town is that DANIEL DAY-LEWIS hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March. His real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Start polishing that lead actor oscar NAO.

Also, this could be Spielberg's next Oscar imo.

 

[CF_Fighter]

I...FREED YOUR...SLAVES!

I'VE FREED THEM UP!

I'm going to bury you underground, Lee.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Variety's @TheInSneider:

Doesn't surprise after There Will Be Blood.

 

[bud]

Variety's @TheInSneider:

what a legend. <3

 

[Plasmid]

I...FREED YOUR...SLAVES!

I'VE FREED THEM UP!

ALL YOUR LAND LEE, EMANCIPATIONNNNN, THEY'RE ALL GONE!

 

[Bregor]

Lee wasn't that strong a supporter of slavery, a better choice would be Jefferson Davis - or Robert Toombs, William Yancey, or even Edmund Ruffin.

Yeah, yeah - I know I'm nitpicking.

 

[Misanthropy]

Variety's @TheInSneider:

Omg. What did he do to train for his role in the Crucible? Yell out things about his name?

 

[MisterAnderson]

This is the opposite of Batman Begins. At first DDL was approached to be Ras Al Ghul but he turned it down.

 

[triplestation]

It's funny someone posted a Gangs of New York image. In that movie DDL's character hates Lincoln, and actually strikes a poster of Lincoln with a dagger throw. Dead center of his forehead.

This is the opposite of Batman Begins. At first DDL was approached to be Ras Al Ghul but he turned it down.

I find it interesting too how they're so correlated.

 

[adamsappel]

Word around town is that DANIEL DAY-LEWIS hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March. His real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet.

Lincoln supposedly had a high, reedy voice. I wonder if DDL will portray him like that.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Omg. What did he do to train for his role in the Crucible? Yell out things about his name?

I don't know, but for Gangs of New York he just beat the hell out of everybody.

 

[NameGenerated]

Variety's @TheInSneider:
Word around town is that DANIEL DAY-LEWIS hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March. His real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet.

Lincoln supposedly had a high, reedy voice. I wonder if DDL will portray him like that.

First is possibly true, second one is true. 2 of my friends got to be extras while they were filming in Richmond (they basically wallowed in mud for hours during a battle scene I believe, and it's not even guaranteed that their shots will be used). One said DDL talks to Spielberg is the high pitched Lincoln between takes, so it is possible he hasn't stopped using the voice I guess.

 

[triplestation]

I DON'T DROP CHARACTER TIL I DONE THE DVD COMMENTARY

 

[LOCK]

I love that he stays in character. Character actors are the best.

 

[oatmeal]

I think Daniel has a more "Lincoln" look than Neeson.

Hmmm...

 

[jonremedy]

DDL is such a beast of an actor.

 

[a Master Ninja]

 

[ghst]

Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.

to present anything approximating the true story of lincoln, spielberg would have to do nothing short of obliterating every sanitised folk myth that americans are taught of the man since kindergarten. he was a shrewd and often cut-throat politician, who managed to pander to conservative bigots and starry eyed progressives alike, not through some messianic moral imperative, but through shrewd manoeuvring.

he'd simultaneously pander to one side by giving lengthy speeches which dismissed blacks as an inferior race, never capable of racial equality; while bringing on-side the abolitionists by presenting their cause as a military necessity.

with lincoln's morals becoming far more defined in his later years, i hope spielberg has the balls to present this as a story of redemption that it should be, rather than a box office ballwashing which only further cements over a century of jingoist propaganda.

 

[Bregor]

I believe that the film is supposed to focus on the last couple of months of Lincoln's life, by which time his views were far more on the side of black equality than they had been earlier in his life.

Edit: And lets be honest- for the time he lived in his views were always more progressive than most of the white population as a whole regarding negro rights.