Liam Neeson is a great actor.
Posted on 07/17/2007 12:44:52 PM PDT by anymouse
Alongside next summer's return of "Indiana Jones 4," Steven Spielberg's upcoming adaptation of "Team of Rivals" (about the political career of President Abraham Lincoln) is consistently one of the more popular projects he has in development at this time.
While Spielberg's take on one of American history's most revered figures has been pushed back to accommodate one of American pop culture's most celebrated figures (Indiana Jones, of course!), the Lincoln project is still in serious development, and we can now officially say that things have taken a brilliant turn.
Over the project's long-gestation, "Gladiator" screenwriter John Logan has had the closest public association with the property, but now, "Munich's" Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tony Kushner is officially on the job.
DreamWorks told us today that the project still doesn't have a solid timeline, as much depends on Kushner's work and Steven Spielberg's schedule post-"Indiana Jones 4." Still, if the news of Kushner's involvement on the film doesn't bring the Lincoln project to an even more exciting plateau for you, then you really need to go back and look at Kushner's brilliant work on "Munich."
Stick with us for more Lincoln news as it develops!
More info on Wikipedia, but FR doesn't allow posts from there.
True...they will do their best.
Despite the fact that the big slave-owners were Democrats!
I doubt it it - Lincoln is too large a figure to be considered "Republican". More likely they will try to equate today's Republicans and the war in Iraq with the Confederate leaders Lincoln had to contend with.
According to IMDB, Liam Neeson has signed on to play Abraham Lincoln.
I can see it now.....comparing the suspension of Habeas Corpus to ALL the rights the Dems say have been suspended by Bush...another one I won’t go see
I finally got around to watching that unholy mess called “Munich” last night. The only thing that could be applauded was the physical look, but the screenplay was total $hit and extremely difficult to follow. The made for tv films about these incidents (this and Raid on Entebbe) in the ‘70s were far superior to this mess.
All “Munich” showed me was that with a bad script even a Speilburg flick can suck. (A lesson I should have remembered from A.I.)
Qui-Gon Lincoln ?
BTW, I am on page 291 of D.K. Goodwin's Team of Rivals.
Not a fan of Goodwin, but I've learned a lot about Lincoln, Seward, Bates & Chase - the four members of the team.
Lincoln-The great Emancipater, oops I mean usurper!!
The ONLY redeeming feature I could find was the acting ability of that guy who also played Julius Caesar on the HBO series "Rome". That guy has definitely got some acting chops.
I actually liked “A.I.” It played like a Kubrick film filtered through Spielberg.
I can confirm that. At a recent Civil War Roundtable meeting we had as featured speaker John Sellers, the curator responsible for, among other presidents, the Lincoln collection at the Library of Congress. He mentioned that Neeson had spent a couple of days with him doing some preliminary research. He'll make an interesting Lincoln.
This is not to start a fight. Why does FR not allow posts from Wikipedia? Must be a good reason.
Oh great, another America-hating liberal is going to write another "true" story.
If he's as "accurate" with this as he was with Munich, expect Lincoln to be supporting gay marriage and universal health care.
MUNICH : too much kvetching, too little shooting. And the bit sharing a safe-house with a bunch of Pallies was just ridiculous. They just had to show us the humanity of the animals.
I was watching it thinking, when did James Bond become a hitman for the Mossad ?
Liam Neeson is a great actor.
Makes sense, an Irish guy playing an American president. Will Sasha Baron Cohen be playing Andrew Johnson?
Oh, man, when I saw that scene, I was like, "WTF ?!?" I was expecting the next scene for them all to start singing Kumbaya (and because Kushner wrote the screenplay, a group circlejerk).
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