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Playwright Tony Kushner, who's been laboring on a script for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln movie for a very long time, is right now taking part in a discussion at a Harvard University Institute of Politics forum panel discussion called "Looking For Lincoln: In His Time and Ours -- A Conversation on the Meaning of Abraham Lincoln." It began at 6 pm at the John F. Kennedy Forum.
In any event, a longtime HE reader in attendance informs by cell-phone e-mail that Kushner has said "the decision will be made on Lincoln next week" and that if the green light is given the film will be "out by Christmas." That's pretty fast work for a expensive period film that'll use a lot of CG, no? Even if Spielberg passes on Civil War battle scenes.
Kushner also said that Lincoln "only covers two months of his life," my guy says, and that "the first draft covered four months and [was] 500 pages."
Kushner also said that the 13th amendment -- the abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude -- "is a big thing in the movie."
One presumes that Kushner meant that the film will cover the last two months of Lincoln's life, or roughly February 15th to April 15th, 1865 -- the day of his death. The 13th amendment was enacted on December 6, 1865, so there'll apparently be a little skipping around, event- and chronology-wise.
If any attention is to be paid to the Civil War during the last 60 days of Lincoln's term, possible inclusions would be (a) the Union victory at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1st, which forced Gen. Robert E. Lee to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederate capital, (b) a subsequent rebel loss at Sayler's Creek, and (c) Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865, in the village of Appomattox Court House.
When I spoke to Liam Neeson (who will most likely play Lincoln) in the summer of '05, he said he understood that the film would span the full arc of Lincoln's time in the White House, beginning in March 1861.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM
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If I recall correctly, Munich didn't get announced until March 2005, then it began shooting at the end of June and was being screened for critics and guild voters in early December.
Plus, there is no guarantee Lincoln will be including any scenes of Civil War action. I am not as familiar with the Civil War as I would like to be, but I don't remember hearing much about Lincoln spending a whole lot of time on the battlefield.
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Like EdHavens said, Spielberg has shot and released ambitious prestige pictures in much less time than between now and December.
He's also ramping up production on Tintin, which seems to be a curiously underreported story.
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Thanks for the kind comments on both "Stealing Lincoln's Body" on the History Channel and "The Assassination of Lincoln" on PBS. We worked on both of these shows (and Nat. Geo's "The Hunt for Lincoln's Assassin, " which is still aring, and several others) We get to do a lot of Lincoln-related shows as we're based in a historic house (Cleydael) that is on the Booth escape route (typing this from the dining room where he ate dinner!)
If you enjoyed the PBS American Experience program and Stealing Lincoln's Body, you might also like to check out the History Channel's online Lincoln videos - click on "Lincoln Videos" - there are four short films on Lincoln's life in photographs where we got to re-create four iconic photos of Lincoln where they morphed from the original photo into real people in full color. These star Fritz Klein, the leading Lincoln interpreter today (he's even based in Springfield, Illinois). He's so Lincoln-like that it's downright eerie. Wish they'd show these on TV too - the director, Terri Randall did a phenomenal job and the accuracy is A+
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