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. president Abraham Lincoln which remarkably still has Liam Neeson attached despite the fact that the movie has been dumped at the last minute several times this decade. Then again, Neeson has read 22 novels on the guy and his personal diaries… he’s obsessed with playing Lincoln on screen and see’s it as a potential career defining role.
2009 also marks the 200 year anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, a anniversary that is hoped will bring around some further media attention for the movie.
As if you need reminding but Spielberg’s next movie - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens May 22nd worldwide.
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