The full trailer will premiere on Sept. 13.

Daniel Day Lewis looks great in the role. I hope it lives up to the hype.

Chris

I agree that Day-Lewis should give a great performance playing Lincoln. Like everyone else I’m really fascinated by what they are going to focus on. The film will have to be at least three hours long. I think it would have worked even better as a miniseries in the vein of the wonderful ‘John Adams’ instead of a theatrical film.

Chris

I was sort of hoping Johnnie Knoxville could play McClellan.

Although he is too tall, John Lithgow might “act” a good Stanton. Perhaps Stephen Root?

If Ben Butler is in the film, maybe Dennis Franz will get back to work.

I think Day-Lewis can give a wonderful, nuanced performance but I doubt the script will be written that way. I suspect the McClellan character will have the depth of a sheet of loose leaf paper, so Tom Cruise could pull it off.

The old bearded guy on the Simpson’s could play Stanton. Krusty the Clown could play Halleck, as could Stewie Griffin.

Rumor is Nick Noltie wants the role of U.S. Grant….

As for Lewis or Day-Lewis or what-have-you, they’d better do a fantastic job with makeup. Seeing Lincoln as just another Hollyweird clone with perfect cheekbones and gleaming white teeth (and Mrs. L. as matronly, perhaps, but lithe nevertheless) will not be convincing let alone inspiring.

The reason I think that they bought Goodwin’s book is probably the same reason that Stanley Kubrick bought Felix Markham’s bio of Napoleon for a film that was never made, unfortunately. Kubrick wanted to cover his bases for other Napoleonic scholars to come forward and say he got the idea from their works. So with buying Markham’s work he could say he used it for the basis of his screenplay even though it was dramatically different from the book. I think the reason for the producers of the Lincoln movie scooping up Goodwin’s book is very similar.

Chris