David Oyelowo cast in Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN

Red Tales co-star David Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's long awaited Lincoln film. He will take on the role of a cavalryman. The actor is currently in the middle of shooting the Tom Cruise movie One Shot. Oyelowo was most recently seen in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Help.

Oyelowo joins an incredible cast of actors in the film that includes, Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln,  Sally Fieldas Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward, and co-stars James Spader,  Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill,Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, Lee Pace and David Warshofsky.

Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced byKathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg. It is anticipated that the film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.