Steven Spielberg Discusses his LINCOLN Film Project
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln film project has been a movie I've been wait to see happen for years, finally he is developing it, and has a hell of a great cast that includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, John Hawkes, and Lee Pace. There's no doubt in my mind that this film is going to be incredible.
Spielberg is currently getting ready to go to Virginia where he will shoot the film. In a recent interview the director talked about the film and what the story is going to focus on. The Tony Kushner screenplay was based on a non-fiction book written by Doris Kearns Goodwin called Team of Rivals, and Spielberg says that "we’re only focusing in on the last four months of Abraham Lincoln’s life." He goes on to explain that Lincoln is "not a battlefield movie. There are battles in it, and being in Virginia, we have access to those historic battlefields. It is really a movie about the great work Abraham Lincoln did in the last months of his life."
This is the exact film that I want to see. I've have a deep interest in history and have studied the life of Abraham Lincoln, and the last four years was his most interesting. The director then adds that he is looking to release the film in theaters after next years election, saying that "I didn’t want it to become political fodder.”
He went on to talk about a few other projects such as Tintin and 3d filmmaking saying...
3D isn’t dead. Nooo. It’s just waiting for the right film to come along that will make an audience want to see it in 3D and not pay the lesser ticket price to see it in 2D. It’s always up to the audience.
3D is just another tool in our shed. It’s up to the audience to discriminate whether or not they think this or that is worth seeing in 3D. They decide “Avatar” is worth a few bucks more in 3D. They decide if ‘Cars 2’ is worth a few bucks less in 2D. Audiences made those choices – ‘Avatar’ in 3D, ‘Cars 2’ in 2D. And that’s the way it’s going to be from now on.
Thank goodness the audience always has the final word. In the end, we are all working for them.
3D filmmaking is good when it's good, but all of this conversion crap, and poor 3D filmmaking is killing it. Spielberg then concludes the interview by saying he hopes to start working on the adaptation of the popular interactive children’s novels (games) The 39 Clues next year with Brett Ratner directing.
In the end I'm just excited as hell abut this Lincoln movie, and I can't wait to see how it turns out.