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Diane Kruger Set For Latest Abe Lincoln Film, This One Produced By Terrence Malick

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: Abraham Lincoln, Diane Kruger, Terrence Malick, The Green Blade Rises
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The 16th U.S. president continues to a hot box office commodity. The next film about Abraham Lincoln is The Green Blade Rises, and Diane Kruger has been set to play Sarah Lincoln, Abe’s beautiful stepmother. The film was written and will be directed by AJ Edwards, with Terrence Malick producing with Nicolas Gonda and Charley Beil. This version tells the story of America’s greatest hero, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever and the two women who guided him to immortality. One is his stepmother, who becomes an influential figure for the future president.

The film is being shot in black and white and will begin production in the fall. It spans three formative years of his life in the vast wilderness of Indiana. And no, there will be no vampires. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has already hit theaters, and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will be released November 9, with Daniel Day-Lewis playing the Great Emancipator. Kruger is repped by UTA, Untitled and UK-based Ken McReddie Associates.

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Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ To Be Twentieth Fox Co-Financed & Distributed Internationally

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday January 23, 2012 @ 11:01am PSTTags: Abraham Lincoln, Twentieth Century Fox

EXCLUSIVE: So this now means 20th Century Fox is getting behind both Steven Spielberg’s earnest Lincoln biopic as well as Tim Burton’s horror genre film Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. (“Preferably not releasing them at the same time,” … Read More »

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David Strathairn Joins Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Which Will Be Oscar Season 2012 Entry

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 3:37pm PDTTags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, DreamWorks, Lincoln, Sally Field, Steven Spielberg
Mike Fleming

David Strathairn has been set for a key role in Lincoln by director Steven Spielberg. He’ll play William Seward, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, an outspoken abolitionist and a core member of Lincoln’s wartime cabinet. He joins Daniel Day-Lewis as … Read More »

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Sally Field Joins Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 13, 2011 @ 3:08pm PDTTags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis, DreamWorks Studios, Sally Field
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA (April 13, 2011) – Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States, in DreamWorks Studios’ “Lincoln” to be directed by Steven Spielberg. The announcement was made today by Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Studios.

Sally Field joins Daniel Day-Lewis, who has been cast to play Abraham Lincoln in the Spielberg film.

“I’m excited to be working with Sally for the first time,” said Steven Spielberg. “I’ve admired her films and she has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln.”

“To have the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis and to play one of the most complicated and colorful women in American history is simply as good as it gets,” said Sally Field.

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