Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg has revealed that he will begin shooting his Lincoln movie in October.
The director is set to bring the Doris Kearns Goodwin novel to the big screen with Daniel Day Lewis set to take on the role of Abraham Lincoln.
And Spielberg admits that he is excited to adapt this novel and tell this story.
Speaking to Empire the filmmaker said: "We start shooting in October. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals is much too big a book to be a movie, so the Lincoln story only takes place in the last few months of his Presidency and life.
"I was interested in how he ended the war through all the efforts of his generals - but more importantly how he passed the 13th Amendment into constitutional law.
"The Emancipation Proclamation was a war powers act and could have been struck down by any court after the war ended... But what permanently ended slavery was the very close vote in the House of Representatives over the 13th Amendment - that story I’m excited to tell."
Joseph Gordon Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones and Jackie Earle Haley are all also on the cast list for the movie.
We haven't seen Spielberg in the director's chair since Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull back in 2009 but he will be back later this year with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
In the new year War Horse is set to hit the big screen - a movie that is an early favourite to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
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