First Official Image of Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN
The first official image of Daniel-Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN has been released. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s highly-acclaimed book Team of Rivals, the film focuses on the last four months of Lincoln’s life and the political strategizing he undertook at the close of the Civil War to ensure that slavery would be forever outlawed.
Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, John Hawkes, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins, David Oyelowo, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Jackie Earle Haley, Lee Pace, and Jared Harris co-star. Not a bad cast… Lincoln opens November 16th. Image and excerpts courtesy of Ewwww.com.
Steven Spielberg on the sixteenth President of the United States:
“He had a very, very complicated – and at the same time, extremely clear — inner life,” the director says. “He thought things out. He talked things out. He argued both sides of every issue. And he was very careful in making any decision. As a matter of fact, his opponents and his enemies criticized him often for being impossibly slow to a decision.”