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HI, LIAM NEESON, THIS IS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS. CAN I BORROW YOUR LINCOLN BOOKS?

post #1 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:30pm
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Daniel Day Lewis will be Spielberg's Lincoln

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post #2 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:31pm
NEWS OF THE WEEK right here. This is simply fantastic.
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post #3 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:33pm
HELL FUCKING YES.
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post #4 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:33pm
Yep. That works.
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post #5 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:35pm
Loved the idea of Neeson in this, but wow, this is incredible!
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post #6 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Pompoussory Estoppel View Post
HELL FUCKING YES.
Quite happy to see you back, PE.
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post #7 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:39pm
Yep, love Liam Neeson, but this, this is better.
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post #8 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:45pm
After all of these years, just like that... Cool.
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post #9 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:47pm
Love the title of this article.
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post #10 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:48pm
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After all of these years, just like that... Cool.
When I saw it on Twitter (via a RT of First Showing) I really thought someone made it up.

"Spielberg isn't directing Lincoln. Duhhhh...oh, it's um...a press release."
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post #11 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:48pm
Another resounding YES from the peanut gallery.

I'm going to have to start saving NOW for movie tickets in 2012. So many potentially awesome flicks coming out that year.
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post #12 of 60
11/19/10 at 4:59pm
Excuse me, I need to be alone with this news for a little while.
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post #13 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:01pm
Ha! I called it (sort of) months ago: http://chud.com/forum/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=31
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post #14 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:02pm
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Love the title of this article.
Ditto.

Also, great news.
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post #15 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:03pm
nuts... i was hoping Ryan Reynolds was going to get it.....
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post #16 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:03pm
Great casting, and I'm glad this is the beard's next project....finally.
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post #17 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:10pm
I'll bet Day-Lewis grows three inches for this part.
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post #18 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:19pm
I remember reading something years ago about Harrison Ford being looked at to play Andrew Johnson. I know little about Johnson's personality, but he always looked grumpy in photos, so the casting seemed apt. I hope it sticks!
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post #19 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:24pm
Oh the awesomeness. Daniel Day Lewis is best at all.

Paul Dano as John Wilkes Booth please. REDEMPTION!
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post #20 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:26pm
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Paul Dano as John Wilkes Booth please. REDEMPTION!
From your lips to Spielberg's ears...
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post #21 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:28pm
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From your lips to Spielberg's ears...
Pray to God.
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post #22 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:32pm
If they got Chris Cooper to play Walt Whitman and Laurence Fishburne to play Frederick Douglas, this would be the most awesome thing ever.
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post #23 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:39pm
Jaw
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Floor
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post #24 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:44pm
Sam Rockwell as Booth!

So, how's Day-Lewis going to play this? Is he going to try to go all accurate on us? I recall reading Lincoln didn't exactly have the most commanding speaking voice. DDL looking like he's dressed up as Lincoln for Halloween, giving the Gettysburg address in a high-pitched Southern accent, is going to be amazing.
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post #25 of 60
11/19/10 at 5:47pm
Excellent! This was just the casting I'd been hoping for. You may (or may not) recall that when Neeson officially dropped out back in July, I said that I'd come to believe DDL could make an even better Lincoln than Neeson could have (though I sincerely regret the way Spielberg strung him along all these years)

This is about as note perfect casting as there has ever been, and I can't wait to see what Lewis does to prepare for the role. I imagine construction of an authentic log cabin will no doubt be involved
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post #26 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:01pm
Liam would have been perfect, but this is the only other acceptable choice. Nothing to complain about here.
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post #27 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:05pm
What's more amazing that Spielberg chose him is that Day-Lewis accepted. He's gotten pretty choosy with what roles he takes.
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post #28 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:07pm
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So, how's Day-Lewis going to play this? Is he going to try to go all accurate on us? I recall reading Lincoln didn't exactly have the most commanding speaking voice. DDL looking like he's dressed up as Lincoln for Halloween, giving the Gettysburg address in a high-pitched Southern accent, is going to be amazing.
We've already got a glimpse of what this performance is going to be like in Gangs of New York if he's going to go the accurate route and give him a high-pitched regional accent, which isn't a bad thing, really.
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post #29 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:16pm
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What's more amazing that Spielberg chose him is that Day-Lewis accepted. He's gotten pretty choosy with what roles he takes.
Except for NINE, apparently. NINE upended my whole understanding of DDL's supposed scrutiny when it comes to the roles he'll accept. Maybe he's in a different place in his career now (or maybe he just wanted to spend a few months in Italy, who knows)
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post #30 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:18pm
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Paul Dano as John Wilkes Booth please. REDEMPTION!
What's "I drink your milkshake" in Latin?

This is fantastic news. Fall 2012? That's going to seem like four score and seven years!
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post #31 of 60
11/19/10 at 6:22pm
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What's "I drink your milkshake" in Latin?
Ego imbibo vestri milkshake!
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post #32 of 60
11/19/10 at 7:03pm
It's hard to trade up from Liam Neeson but this is a pretty sure-fire way to do so. Phenomenal news.
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post #33 of 60
11/19/10 at 8:09pm
Oh man. This is easily the best movie news I've heard in months.
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post #34 of 60
11/19/10 at 9:19pm
Day-Lewis is going to live in a log cabin until shooting wraps.
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post #35 of 60
11/19/10 at 9:36pm
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Day-Lewis is going to live in a log cabin until shooting wraps.
If some of those Tea Party states begin to secede, now we know who to call!
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post #36 of 60
11/19/10 at 9:56pm
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If some of those Tea Party states begin to secede, now we know who to call!
I am WAITING for Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin to go apeshit over an Irishman playing Abraham Lincoln.

Or, as they know him, "that man on the penny."
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post #37 of 60
11/19/10 at 11:13pm
AS awesome as this is, I gotta admit I'm a little saddened that we won't get to see Neeson in the role.

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I recall reading Lincoln didn't exactly have the most commanding speaking voice. DDL looking like he's dressed up as Lincoln for Halloween, giving the Gettysburg address in a high-pitched Southern accent, is going to be amazing.
I remember watching a documentary a long time ago about Lincoln. There was a whole bit about how people to this day think that Lincoln had low, deep voice with a slow, smooth, elegant cadence and spoke as if he was pushing his jaw forward (Like he's commonly portrayed). Then they played a voice actor reading the Gettysburg Address and said "By all accounts this is how he actually sounded". I swear it sounded like how you'd imagine some cartoonish backwoods toothless hillbilly would. The kind that spends his days chewing wheat or blowing into jugs while in a rocking chair on his porch wearing a straw hat and tattered shorteralls. It sounded ridiculous and more than a little silly. So I wonder what they're gonna do.

I'd like to imagine Daniel Day Lewis going apeshit on set because Spielberg wants him to ditch the high pitched warble for the more classic Lincoln.
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post #38 of 60
11/19/10 at 11:31pm
Yeah, pretty friggin' great announcement. Ending the week with this news is so sweet. Already imagining DDL as Lincoln.
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post #39 of 60
11/19/10 at 11:38pm
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I am WAITING for Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin to go apeshit over an Irishman playing Abraham Lincoln.

Or, as they know him, "that man on the penny."
You're giving them too much credit. "That big white Jewish statue from Night at the Museum Pt 2".

I would love to see a version of Booth played as the dreamy heart-throb that he was in Assassination Vacation.
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post #40 of 60
11/19/10 at 11:46pm
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You're giving them too much credit. "That big white Jewish statue from Night at the Museum Pt 2".
Hahahaha. True! No one with that amount of money actually touches something so middling as a penny, anyway.
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post #41 of 60
11/20/10 at 12:15am
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Originally Posted by J David Rhodes View Post
I would love to see a version of Booth played as the dreamy heart-throb that he was in Assassination Vacation.

While I am salivating at the idea of a Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln, I would really like a film version of Assassination Vacation. We can go all Adaptation on it with Sarah Vowell plotting her own AV trip.
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post #42 of 60
11/20/10 at 1:15am
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Originally Posted by TonyRockyHorror View Post
I remember watching a documentary a long time ago about Lincoln. There was a whole bit about how people to this day think that Lincoln had low, deep voice with a slow, smooth, elegant cadence and spoke as if he was pushing his jaw forward (Like he's commonly portrayed). Then they played a voice actor reading the Gettysburg Address and said "By all accounts this is how he actually sounded". I swear it sounded like how you'd imagine some cartoonish backwoods toothless hillbilly would. The kind that spends his days chewing wheat or blowing into jugs while in a rocking chair on his porch wearing a straw hat and tattered shorteralls. It sounded ridiculous and more than a little silly. So I wonder what they're gonna do.

I'd like to imagine Daniel Day Lewis going apeshit on set because Spielberg wants him to ditch the high pitched warble for the more classic Lincoln.
That's exactly what I'm curious about. DDL shows up in full on Gabby Hayes mode and Spielberg shits his longjohns.
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post #43 of 60
11/20/10 at 4:59am
Neeson pulling out because he's too old to play the part is odd. He's 58...Lincoln was 56 when he died...and DDL is only five years younger than Neeson.

Plus, by all accounts, his time in office aged Lincoln pretty noticeably.
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post #44 of 60
11/20/10 at 12:41pm
Well this news has given me the fucking vapours I must say. Not only is one of the worlds greatest living film-makers finally making the historical passion project we've been hearing about for years, he's doing it with possibly the greatest actor alive today.

This shit was made in cinephile heaven. Have we all been extra good lately or something?
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post #45 of 60
11/20/10 at 1:29pm
Just curious if anyone remembers the whole thing about Lincoln's voice at Gettysburg from TIMELINE? About how they wanted to give tours to people of famous events in history, but Lincoln sounded to whiny and high pitched? I'd hope Spielberg doesn't try to change Lincoln's voice. I want DDL given the freedom to develop an authentic accent from scratch
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post #46 of 60
11/20/10 at 2:30pm
DDL is a god and obviously he'll do a good job. But Neeson seemed like such a natural, almost inevitable fit for the role it's sad that we're not actually going to see it.

Weird that Neeson claimed to have dropped out due to being too old, when Day-Lewis isn't a whole lot younger.
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post #47 of 60
11/20/10 at 2:59pm
Hmm excited by the role,

but now is the director going to make Lincoln a neglect father?

We do know that the ending can't be all happy, it's not like germs save him. Hope he doesn't CG his top hat (yeah Spielberg hasn't been on a role as of late).
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post #48 of 60
11/20/10 at 3:07pm
*Checks pants*

Yep. I peed a little.
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post #49 of 60
11/20/10 at 5:59pm
Sorry, he had the right guy already then started pushing it off to make shit-on-toast. I'll believe this when I start seeing the commercials saying "Starts Next Week".

Frankly this is why as big a film fan as I am, I'm starting to slide more and more away from this endless daily news/twit/facebook/comment at convention realm.
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post #50 of 60
11/20/10 at 6:56pm
As a Southerner, I'm not the biggest Lincoln fan in the world, but I will admit that I would watch a movie with Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln in a heartbeat. There's no way in hell that it will happen, but I would love to see DDL as Lincoln use the I drink your milkshake line on whoever plays Jefferson Davis. I agree with andrewhawkins that Paul Dano should get the John Wilkes Booth role.
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