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		<title>Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN/INDY V news&#8230; plus Redford&#8217;s THE CONSPIRATOR casts two!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
"We are very happy that Redford will be doing this Lincoln movie. It is completely different from what our DreamWorks Lincoln movie will be, and we believe that it will add to the commercial potential of our film. Lincoln as a subject is inexhaustible."
The words of Steven Spielberg to Variety, as yesterday Robert Redford cast both James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn for his own Lincoln movie, the assassination aftermath drama The Conspirator.

Spielberg is right of course. His Lincoln movie is to focus on the president's anguish over the Civil War whilst Redford's is more about the trial of the assassination conspirators. If anything the two films would compliment each other quite nicely.

Yesterday's Variety said...
Wright Penn will play Mary Surratt, the only woman among a group charged with conspiring to kill the president. McAvoy will play Frederick Aiken, an idealistic young war hero who reluctantly defends Surratt and in the process comes to believe she is innocent.
That movie begins filming next month but Spielberg's is still no where to be seen, as he is more interested in playing with invisible rabbits than Lincoln. Though he still says "will be" to the trade but is anyone even remotely convinced he will ...]]></description>
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		<title>If not now, when?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Steven Spielberg's comfort blanket remake of Harvey is a sign of the end. It's the movie where a once innovative and ambitious film-maker, the best guy holding a camera during a 18 year golden era which ended with Schlinder's List, has ran out of steam and ambition to take a risk and is entering those latter day directing years that most creative talents in this industry eventually hit. The years when they simply stop caring. 

The years when even the bad movies they make (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) are just shockingly lazy efforts, not bad because they were major failures by a an auteur who just got the puzzled mixed up (A.I.), just bad, bad, bad movies.

Bad, because there was no effort. I think the term is "hack job".

Spielberg stopped caring the moment he chose to remake James Stewart, instead of  stepping up to the plate and making Lincoln, a project at this point he is frightened of. 

Will today's news even be on Spielberg's radar? Is he so distanced now from the figure of Lincoln  - that he won't care?

It's been reported that Mr. Sundance Robert Redford intends to direct The Conspirator, a low budget Indie film focusing on Mary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN this Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we heard from star Liam Neeson that he hadn't even seen a completed screenplay for the proposed Steven Spielberg directed biopic of Abraham Lincoln and that it was unlikely to film this year. 

However as you know, unlikely doesn't neccessarily mean it won't happen.

MUICH screenwriter Tony Kushner has told grad students at a Harvard University Institute of Politics forum that “the decision will be made on Lincoln next week” and if it gets the greenlight it will be out by Christmas, so it can still be released in the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. 

Kushner said the film...
“only covers two months of his life,” and that “the first draft covered four months and [was] 500 pages,” and the 13th amendment — the abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude — “is a big thing in the movie.”
Which means 55 year old Neeson, the same age as Lincoln when he was assassinated, is able to play the part all by himself. No younger actor will be needed.

We shouldn't be all that surprised by the ambitious quick turn around for Spielberg. Recently he has become apt to shooting things quickly, the insane work ethic he showed on both MUNICH and WAR OF THE WORLDS was quite ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liam Neeson hasn&#8217;t even seen the script for Spielberg&#8217;s LINCOLN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 marks the 200 year anniversary of the birth of American President Abraham Lincoln.

2009 was also intended to be the year of release when Steven Spielberg first approached Liam Neeson about a planned LINCOLN biopic four years ago but the SCHLINDER'S LIST star amazingly says he has still not yet seen a script for the movie, written by MUNICH writer Tony Kushner.


Talking to Coming Soon, Neeson claims he knows about as much on the development of the movie as we do and that the director "will do it whenever he's ready to do it".

Spielberg was set to make the movie before the kid in him wanted to make another INDIANA JONES movie and then the chance to work with Peter Jackson on TINTIN lured him further away from the biopic as did his brief flirtation with the story of the TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7.

For whatever reason, Spielberg's heart wasn't quite ready to make the LINCOLN movie and from what I read in 2005-2007, he kind of messed Liam Neeson around with starting dates which left Neeson in a limbo post-BATMAN BEGINS. He has only recently started to accept roles again.

Hopefully missing a convenient anniversary date hasn't quelled Spielberg's ambition ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg&#8217;s next movie after TINTIN will be&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg was hoping to be filming his Trial of the Chicago 7 movie right now - the film about the famous protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago which looked to star Will Smith, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Sacha Baron Cohen among other big names but because of the writer's strike and the director's incredibly tight schedule, it would seem that movie has been delayed from production until at least the middle of next year.

A real shame actually because I think a mature Spielberg which has seen powerful movies like Munich become a reality is something he doesn't seem interested in re-visiting more than once every six or seven years.

His next movie as we all know will be the first part of the Tintin saga, a huge trilogy of motion captured movies that he is developing with Peter Jackson. That movie begins work in September and won't be affected by the actors strike apparently because voice and motion capture work doesn't count as actually acting... or at least that's what Spielberg hints to Screen Daily.

Once Spielberg is done with that and has enjoyed the festive cheer, work will begin on his long talked about biopic of the U.S. ...]]></description>
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