Posted on 09/25/2007 8:30:06 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Sally Field wins an Emmy and suddenly everyone wants to 'really, really like her' again. Fresh off her controversial appearance on the Emmys, when she won for Brothers & Sisters, Sally Field has been cast as Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln, in Steven Spielberg's long-awaited biopic of one of the most important leaders of all time. Liam Neeson has already been cast as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln bases on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will center on the life of the leader in the time leading up to the Civil War as he inspired the troops of the North to fight. As E! reports, Liam Neeson has been attached to the project since way back in 2005, when it looked like Spielberg might do the flick between Munich and War of the Worlds. But the film has been postponed a number of times due to casting and scheduling conflicts. With the casting of Sally Field, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is closer to actually happening than ever before.
Now, of course, Steven Spielberg is filming a little movie called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so Lincoln will have to wait. That film will be released May 22, 2008 and Spielberg has a history of doing one big summer movie and one "serious" winter movie. Jurassic Park and Schindler's List both came out in 1993 and War of the Worlds and Munich dropped in 2005. Don't be at all surprised if Spielberg drops Indiana Jones 4 and Lincoln in 2008. E! does note however that it could be tough to start Lincoln with Sally Field's Brothers & Sisters schedule. It may have to wait until her summer hiatus, but Spielberg could still get it out before the end of next year. Lincoln reteams Spielberg with Neeson from Schindler's List and Tony Kushner, the writer of Munich. It's got Oscar bait written all over it.
The 60-year-old Sally Field has a long history in television and film, recently finishing an arc on ER and being a series regular and Emmy winner now on Brothers & Sisters. Sally Field has been nominated for an Oscar twice and won both times for 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart.
I wouldn’t be surprised if “Spielberg drops” isn’t an apt mental image for these films.
Good casting. She’ll fill the role of a mentally deranged woman perfectly. Mary Todd Lincoln was not a very attractive woman either.
Maybe they’ll try to associate Lincoln’s suspension of the right of habeus corpus with Bush’s Patriot Act.
Sally Field is still cute for her age, but like most in Hollywood is not playing with a full one.
Physically, she’s too pretty to play Mary Lincoln.
Mentally, of course, she fits the role like a glove.
Actually, Sally Field has some of the facial structure of Mrs. Lincoln. I would think they would be able to make her up to play the role quite well.
So, a bunch of hard core lefties are making a Lincoln movie based on a book written by a hard core lefty plagerist. I’ll pass.
She’ll always be a flying nun to me.
What a shame. I thought they would have gone with Holly hunter in that role, since she and liam neeson read the letters of Lincoln and Mary together sometime ago on Cspan. They were absolutely superb.
Ah, well that means we can look forward to the American Civil War being blamed on a Jewish-Israeli conspiracy.
Lincoln was one of the sorriest Presidents in American History. (If not the sorriest).
Well, here’s a stupid looking post, but look at the full-sized image of the young Mary Todd.
(BTW , compare the older Martha Washington sometime with the widow Custis, and you’ll see George
probably didn’t marry her for her money after all.)
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With the magic that Hollywood can work, I would say that this one would be a piece of cake.
Republican Hero? He’s slightly above Jimmy Carter.....
Republican Hero? He’s slightly above Jimmy Carter.....
Only if they can tie in the fiction of Lincoln being homosexual.
Oh joy. Abe and Mary Lincoln as portrayed by Norma Jean and Alfred Kinsey.
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