Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford are planning Seperate Abraham Lincoln Movies.
Steven Spielberg's plan for an Abraham Lincoln biopic, with Liam Neeson in the title role, is under threat from a rival project by fellow Oscar-winner Robert Redford, according to the Hollywood Reporter. (2020 Update - Neeson? Title role? I wonder how that would have worked out?)Their Risky Business blog reports that Redford is planning a film centred around the assassination of the US president by actor and Confederacy sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. The tale, to be titled The Conspirator, would focus on the story of Mary Surratt, allegedly one of Booth's aides.
Read more here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/18/steven-spielberg-abraham-lincoln-biopic
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