Following on from his vampire hunting exploits in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the 16th President of the United States is set to return to the screen later this year in the historical drama Lincoln, which sees two-time Academy Award-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood) strapping on the chin curtain for filmmaker Steven Spielberg's hotly-anticipated adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Earlier today, Entertainment Weekly delivered a stunning first-look image of Day-Lewis in full costume. Take a look...
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Alongside Day-Lewis, Spielberg has assembled a stellar supporting cast for Lincoln which includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) as Robert Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black 3) as Thaddeus Stevens, Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) as Alexander Stephens, Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) as Ulysses S. Grant, Sally Field (The Amazing Spider-Man) as Mary Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum) as William Seward, Lee Pace (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) as Fernando Wood, James Spader (Boston Legal) as WN Bilbo, John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene) as Robert Latham, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained) as Wells A. Hutchins, David Costabile (Breaking Bad) as James Ashley, Bruce McGill (Law Abiding Citizen) as Edwin Stanton and Adam Driver (J. Edgar) as Samuel Beckwith.
Lincoln is set for a limited North American release on November 9th before opening nationwide on November 16th, and is currently slated to arrive in the UK on January 25th, 2013 - at which point you can probably expect it to have received a host of Oscar nominations.![]()
Alongside Day-Lewis, Spielberg has assembled a stellar supporting cast for Lincoln which includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) as Robert Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black 3) as Thaddeus Stevens, Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) as Alexander Stephens, Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) as Ulysses S. Grant, Sally Field (The Amazing Spider-Man) as Mary Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum) as William Seward, Lee Pace (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) as Fernando Wood, James Spader (Boston Legal) as WN Bilbo, John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene) as Robert Latham, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained) as Wells A. Hutchins, David Costabile (Breaking Bad) as James Ashley, Bruce McGill (Law Abiding Citizen) as Edwin Stanton and Adam Driver (J. Edgar) as Samuel Beckwith.
Lincoln is set for a limited North American release on November 9th before opening nationwide on November 16th, and is currently slated to arrive in the UK on January 25th, 2013 - at which point you can probably expect it to have received a host of Oscar nominations.
