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EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Channel has teamed with Tony and Ridley Scott to produce a two-hour documentary based on Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling book with co-author Martin Dugard. 
The documentary, set to begin production in the spring for an early 2013 premiere globally on the National Geographic Channel, will keep the fast pace of the book, described as a historical thriller with a John Grisham-style narrative about the 1865 murder of President Abraham Lincoln and the furious manhunt for his killer. It will include feature-film quality re-enactments completed with CGI in the signature style of the Scott brothers. “National Geographic has a great legacy of telling some of history’s most riveting stories,” said O’Reilly, who will also serve as an executive producer on the documentary. “The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is no exception, as it continues to be one of the most significant, life-changing events in America’s young history.”
For Brits Ridley and Tony Scott, this marks the second documentary about a pivotal episode in American history on the heels of their 2011 History docu Gettysburg. It earned six Emmy nominations, including best nonfiction special. 
“National Geographic Channel is the perfect partner for us to bring Bill O’Reilly’s dynamic Killing Lincoln to the screen,” Ridley Scott said.
This marks one of the first major projects for Howard T. Owens, who was named president of National Geographic Channels USA late last year. “Using contemporary storytelling methods that are the hallmark of what the Scott brothers are known for will transform this popular best-seller into a global television event for our network,” he said.
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I wonder if NatGeo or the Scott brothers will clean up the factual errors in the book that got it banned from being sold at Ford’s Theatre. I certainly hope they don’t let that gasbag O’Reilly include an Oval Office in the script decades before it actually existed.
That book has been denounced by nearly every historian and pulled from various Lincoln museums for its wild innacuacies. Shame on all involved in this production.
Hey Jor – that’s untrue…get YOUR facts straight.
There were four minor misstatements and two typeset errors, all of which have been corrected in the second publishing.
The book is being sold not only at Ford’s Theater, but also at the Lincoln Presidential Library.
You may not like Bill O…that’s fine, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion…but you’re not entitled to your own facts.
thanks for pointing out what these simple minded, parrot-heads couldn’t research themselves. Unsurprising, yet disconcerting, to see that blind bigotry is rampant as ever in hollywoodland. Toward conservative eggheads that is…
Blind bigotry is rampant all over the US. The left hates the right and the right hates the left. And your country is screwed because of it.
There is absolutely NO equivalence between the right’s irrational, ignorant – dangerous – bloviating, and the left’s contemptuous disgust.
only thing screwed is the logic of another wannabe ami wishing their opinion mattered. enjoy the view tim
I hope that the Scotts correct the factual errors in the source text when the script is written.
The Scott’s have given this BlowHard an ego injection that will carry him for a long time. There is much better and more accurate source material then this dribble from this imbecile. It is not like the story hasnt been told by more legitimate historians. Why do these talented brothers attach themselves in any way to this moron? The association adds nothing to their reputations as filmmakers, but certainly places a stain of wtf were you thinking.
Very sorry to hear that you did this.
Ridley called the book “dynamic”? I guess it’s easy to make history more exciting when you ignore things like facts. But hey, it worked for JFK.
GREAT- I LOVE FAIRY TALES.I would think the Scott brothers would be smarter than that
So the Scotts are conservative? Guess I won’t be buying that Prometheus ticket after all.
First, it’s incredibly simple-minded to boycott anyone’s movie’s/television shows over their political beliefs, two, what makes you think that the Tony and Ridley Scott are conservative?
Ahhh, the threat of “blacklisting” over a basic cable docudrama.
The kind of douche who would do that would likely never see a Scott Brothers film, anyway.
Judging by the commenters’ names, “Jor/Joe/Jon,” you’re probably just sad one hump stealing wifi from Starbucks. At least buy a refill. And tip the kids at the counter, they work for their money.
My parents are conservatives… by your logic I should no longer associate with them???
Seriously? What kind of asshole is going to boycott a movie because of an unrelated political belief?….and one that’s assumed at that.
It’s as ludicrous as when people avoid George Clooney or Sean Penn films.
I find offensive that the left’s much lauded open mindedness instantly shuts down the instant they don’t agree with something. It’s as misguided as the right’s identical behavior…only worse because they’re claiming to be open-minded.
Prometheus is going to be awesome. Don’t be a punk.
haha. So don’t watch Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, James Earl Jones, Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean), Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, or Adam Sandler. All of whom are Conservative just out of the top of my head. =)
O’Reilly is a tool, but the bigger tools are the so called Historians that are going nuts over a FEW mistakes.
Historians being part of academia are Leftists. They have the conservative O’Reilly and also can’t stand that anyone, from outside their little ivory tower would dare presume to write a history book.
This has to do with politics…current day politics, nothing from the 19th century.
Historical errors aside, isn’t this book ‘written’ by Billo basically a sophomoric cut & paste job of the other myriad books on Lincoln?
Re: Comment by Jon. I will buy an extra ticket for Prometheus, in your honor.
You’re an idiot for not wanting to see the movie because they “might” be conservative. Ridley is a god in Cinema and his brother is not bad either.
Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator….nuff said.
During the book’s initial release, Rae Emerson, the deputy superintendent of Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, conducted a review of the book’s text and discovered a number of inaccuracies, which she described as “factual errors” and listed as numbering ten, each different and one additionally occurring multiple times.
As a result of the review, the National Park Service, which manages Ford’s Theatre, made the decision not to allow the edition of the book containing the errors to be sold at the Eastern National Bookstore located in the Museum at Ford’s Theatre National Historic site, although it is sold in a gift shop in the lobby that is operated independently by the Ford’s Theatre Society. Another critical review of the book appeared in the November 2011 edition of North & South, a leading Civil War publication, in which Edward Steers Jr. cited additional instances where the book strays from documented history. Writing about the book’s inaccuracies concerning convicted Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt, he said:
The authors write that she was forced to wear a padded hood when not on trial, and that she was imprisoned in a cell aboard the monitor Montauk, which was “barely habitable.” She suffered from “claustrophobia and disfigurement caused by the hood,” and was “barely tended to by her captors.” “Sick and trapped in this filthy cell, Mary Surratt took on a haunted, bloated appearance.” None of this is true. Mary Surratt was never shackled or hooded at any time. She was never imprisoned aboard the Montauk, but taken to the Carroll Annex of the Old Capitol Prison before being transferred to the women’s section of the Federal Penitentiary at the Washington Arsenal.
— Edward Steers Jr., North & South, November 2011, pp 61-64
A top rated political talk show host, a best selling author, and now a respected historian. Is there nothing Bill can’t do?
Dont forget he was a top reporter, a teacher, and a man about town! Also, his recent acting job on Rizzoli and Izzles, so look out Hollywood! Next-Male Model! If Derek Zoolander can do it, so can BOR!
Isnt it more concerning that neither the writers nor the publishing house/Editors actually caught these basic mistakes in the first place? If they can’t even get those correct………….why would I be surprised to learn there’s more.
I don’t like O’Reilly anyway, but if he’s that shoddy on the basics why should I take any of the rest when, as noted, there already exist myriad books that are more correctly researched.
I’d rather buy one of them instead than a half done cash grab.
What the fuck is this is it another ILLUMINATI gospel and their conspiracy theories preached to us indirectly to brain wash us and keep us distracted from reality while their puppets make millions….with irrelevent source of information why not talk about how JFK died and the other Kennedy brother and how the younger one was talked into letting go of the american dream
A great read! I do think that cavalry and calvary are two different non-interchangable words though!(the CD version sounds as though Bill used the incorrect connotation of this branch of the military)
I agree. It was annoying to hear Tom Hanks repeatedly say “Calvary” which was the site of Christ’s crusifixion. Unfortunately, there are many other journalists, actors, professors and politicians who don’t know the difference. Sad commentary on our supposed educated society. A fourth grader should know the difference.
That was proven to be a false news story and killing Lincoln is the largest sold book at fords theatre
The oval office in 1865 wasn’t the same office in present day…correct. However, the name “Oval Office” was in use during 1865. Even though the 1865 office was square shape.
Oh I’m getting my Doctrine in American History. I’ve read the book and couldn’t find one error.
I normally enjoy audiobooks read by the author, but I am only on the 2nd CD and Bill O’Reilly is driving me crazy with his overuse and mispronunciation of the word, “cavalry”. Bill constantly says “CAL-va-ry” which refers to the place where Jesus was crucified. “CAV-al-ry” is the correct pronunciation, and means men on horseback. If Bill doesn’t know the difference, isn’t there an editor at Recorded Books that would pick up on this? Shame on all of you!
Amazing how not one single person could cite a single factual error that was not a simple typo. Indeed, all the factual errors are on the part of those who falsely claim the book was banned from Fords theater and Lincoln Museum, which are baseless lies.
If you want to read a book shot through with factual errors and outright lies, just pick up anything written by the fat pig Al Franken.