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Billy Campbell, who plays troubled mayoral candidate Darren Richmond on AMC’s The Killing, is signing on for more killing. He has been set to play Abraham Lincoln in National Geographic Channel‘s Killing Lincoln, the two-hour docu-drama based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book that chronicles the conspiracy behind Lincoln’s assassination. Scott Free Productions and Herzog & Co are producing the telefilm, which Erik Jendresen is showrunning and Adrian Moat (the same companies’ Emmy-nominated Gettysburg) is directing. Ridley and Tony Scott are executive producing along with O’Reilly, David Zucker, Mary Lisio, and Mark Herzog. The shoot is scheduled to begin this month in Richmond, VA. Campbell, who launched his career starring opposite Jennifer Connelly in 1991′s The Rocketeer, most recently was seen on the big screen in Matthew Lilard’s SXSW winner Fat Kid Rules The World.
Related: Bill O’Reilly Book ‘Killing Lincoln’ Becomes Nat Geo Documentary Produced By Ridley & Tony Scott
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Hopefully the movie, unlike the book, will actually be an accurate account. I would prefer an adaptation of “Manhunt.”
I can’t believe O’Reilly didn’t lobby harder or hold out for Rove, Dick Morris or Bernie Goldberg to play Lincoln.
Rumor has it that Janine Turner will play Mary Todd. And in the movie, she attempts to talk Lincoln out of freeing the slaves.
Has anyone ever read, ” The Day Lincoln Died” by the late Jim Bishop?
Bill’O certainly has.
Ordinarily, I’d join in with those criticizing the O’Reily book… But after ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER, my heart’s just not in it.
The script has scenes and facts that have never been published. V cool.
Hopefully it will be better than the Killing.
It’s obvious the people commenting don’t know what they are talking about,and haven’t read “Killing Lincoln”,it’s a very good factual account of the days before Lincoln was murdered,not an ignorant account of Lincoln being a Vampire,the writers need to put aside the stupidity and hate and actually pick up a copy of Bills book and read it,history will come alive on the pages and it may teach the reader about the greatness of Lincoln
“Factual,” Wharfrat? The book refers to the Oval Office — which didn’t even exist in Lincoln’s time. And in context “Oval Office” meant the actual room, not a symbol, e.g., “the prestige of the Oval Office.”
History may be written by the winners, but it should not be written by the sloppy, or the lazy.