SYNOPSIS

Scripted by Tony Kushner, this is based on the Doris Kearns Goodwin book, "Team of Rivals,". The story focuses on the life of the United States' 16th President, his rise to politics and his role in the Civil War. Daniel Day-Lewis is slated to take on the role of Lincoln with Sally Field playing his wife, Mary Todd. Tommy Lee Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens with Gordon Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln.

PREVIEW NOTES

• Variety reports that Liam Neeson in negotiations to play the top role. Filming is to start next January. - 2005-01-12
• Newsweek reports that Sally Field will play Mary Todd, wife of the 16th U.S. president. - 2007-09-23
• Variety reports Robert Redford is moving into the project - the script is being revised by Tony Kushner. - 2009-09-14
• DreamWorks Studios reports that Daniel Day-Lewis will star as the 16th President of the United States. Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney's Touchstone distribution label. - 2010-11-19
• DreamWorks Studios reports that Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States. - 2011-04-13
• The Associated Press reports that production is finally set to begin in Virginia this fall. - 2011-05-04
• DreamWorks announces that Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader are joining cast. - 2011-05-05
• DreamWorks announces that David Strathairn has joined the project. - 2011-06-27
• Deadline reports that Walter Goggins has joined the project. - 2011-07-11
• Deadline reports that Jackie Earle Haley will play the role of Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. - 2011-09-21

FACT

The 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth occurred in February, 2009.