Lincoln Movie Update (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

Since we were checking about the Cleburne movie update, I did a search on the Lincoln movie and found that it will star Liam Neeson as Lincoln (nothing new there) and Sally Field as Mary (not sure I heard that).

Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Abraham Lincoln, "Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," is the basis for the film, which was written for the screen by "Angels In America" creator and Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Emmy winner Tony Kushner.

A 2011 release is anticipated.

There's also this article from the Lincoln Blog from September of last year, which talks about a rival project by Robert Redford. The Redford movie has to do with Mary Surratt, woman who ran the boarding house and was executed in connection with Lincoln's assassination.

HBO is also supposed to be doing a film about the manhunt for Lincoln's assassins.

 

[Nooooo9]

There is a recent book called "Manhunt" about the search for Booth and the conspirators. It would make a great movie and HBO usually does a pretty good job. I remember hearing about the Lincoln movie with Liam Nielson several years back, and not a thing since. I hadn't heard about Sally Field as Mary though, thats interesting. Are these still in development or are they filming now?l

 

[jazzeum]

The HBO project is supposed to be based on the Manhunt book. As far as the Lincoln movie, the only thing I could find was a projected 2011 release.

 

[UKReb]

The film is still in development and has been for some time.

Ironically the other evening I caught up with a 1988 USTV production of Gore Vidal's Lincoln starring Sam Waterston as Abe and Mary Tyler Moore as Mary. A three hour film which I thoroughly enjoyed albeit the budget was evidently micro-size. Nevertheless, Waterston's intepretatation was pretty spot on but the surprising performance was from MTM especially during her scenes of Mary falling into eventual madness following the death of young Willy Lincoln. Impressive US drama for a TV production

Reb

 

[Scott]

I knew some of the 5th NY reenactors that portrayed Elsworth Zouaves in that movie and joked that they should have been in gray instead of the blue and red.
(a movie is lucky to get ANY Zouaves)
One guy joked back that if you watched the movie in black and white they were "correct."