This New Set Photo Of LINCOLN Shows You That Daniel Day-Lewis Looks Perfect As Abraham Lincoln

December 14, 2011RamaNo Comments,

The previous photo shows you Daniel Day-Lewis with Abraham Lincoln‘s face and now this new set photo, via The Richmond Times-Dispatch from the Virginia set of LINCOLN, shows Day-Lewis in costume and bam! He’s no longer Day-Lewis, he’s now honest abe, that’s how good that actor is, you don’t see him, you see his character. Too early to judge of course but hey, it’s DDL we’re talkin’ about here…

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln
Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln
Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens
Joseph Gordon Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln
David Strathairn as William H. Seward
Walton Goggins as Wells A. Hutchins
Jackie Earle Haley as Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant
David Oyelowo as Cavalryman

Also starring

Tim Blake Nelson
James Spader
David Costabile
Joseph Cross
John Hawkes
Hal Holbrook
Byron Jennings
Dakin Matthews
Bruce McGill
Boris McGiver
Gloria Reuben
Jeremy Strong
David Warshofsky.

The story is based on the best-selling book, TEAM OF RIVALS by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Screenplay was written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner.
To be directed by 2-time Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg
Project produced by 6 time Oscar nominated producer Kathleen Kennedy and Spielberg.. that’s a lot of prestigious awards in one paragraph!!!

The film will focus on Lincoln’s political collision and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the civil war

LINCOLN is expected to start production in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney’s Touchstone distribution label.

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