Daniel Day-Lewis to Star in Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN

[Greg Cox]

Neeson and DDL seem to be competing for the number of real life people they can play. Day-Lewis has Kakfa, Christie Brown (My Left Foot) and Gerry Conlon (In the Name of the Father) under his belt and now Lincoln. Neeson has Michael Collins, Oskar Schindler and Alfred Kinsey.

Anthony Hopkins probably has them both beat: Nixon, Picasso, John Quincey Adams, C.S. Lewis, Ptolemy, Dr. Kellogg, Hitler, Captain Bligh, Frederick Treves, Charles Dickens, Richard the Lionheart, etc.

(Thank you, imdb!)

 

[Captaindemotion]

^Then there's Gary Oldman with Sid Vicious, Joe Orton, Lee Harvey Oswald, Beethoven, Pontius Pilate. And Dracula, if you count him (the real-life Vlad Dracul).

 

[Greg Cox]

Meryl Streep is racking them up too: Julia Child, Margaret Thatcher, Isak Dinesen, Karen Silkwood, etc.

 

[Cicero]

Neeson also played Rob Roy.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Sally Field has been cast to play Mary Todd Lincoln.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Sall...-Steven-Spielberg-s-Lincoln-Biopic-24189.html

 

[Greg Cox]

In the meantime, THE CONSPIRATOR, which is a movie about the trial of Mary Surratt, who was accused of taking part in Lincoln's assassination, opens Friday after holding its gala red-carpet premiere at . . . Ford's Theater.

 

[Starbreaker]

Too many movies about Lincoln! Just TOO many!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'll stick with the vampire one, thanks. Too bad Fields isn't signed on for that one.