We already have the first official photo of Daniel Day-Lewis like Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. The film will just be called «Lincoln" Y is directed by Steven Spielberg. Really, a surprising characterization.
The film will focus on the political clash between Lincoln and the powerful men in his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War. «Lincoln”Is based on the best-selling book“ Team of Rivals, ”written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who co-wrote the script with Tony Kushner.
In addition to Day-Lewis, there are Sally Field as Lincoln's wife, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln's son Robert, and Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant. It is scheduled to hit theaters in the US on November 9 this year.
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