Daniel Day-Lewis will star as Abraham Lincoln in the film version of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, the Wrap reported. Steven Spielberg will direct the DreamWorks Studios movie from a screenplay by Tony Kushner. Filming is expected to begin next fall for a late 2012 release.
"Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future," Spielberg said. "I am grateful and inspired that our paths will finally cross with Lincoln."
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A trailer has been released for director Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Brighton Rock--which will open in the U.K. Febriuary 4--but the Guardian cautioned not to consider this a remake: "Rather than taking his cue from the 1947 classic he returned directly to Graham Greene's novel, and, re-setting the story in the '60s, formed a towering study of female suffering, with brilliant performances by Sam Riley, Helen Mirren and Andrea Riseborough."