Film Preview: Lincoln

Steven Spielberg certainly likes to keep busy and not just retire out of Hollywood quietly, this year his film for Oscar consideration is a biographical drama about the life of Abraham Lincoln. The film is based on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns which is an extremely lengthy biography on Abraham Lincoln. Originally in 2005, Liam Neeson was going to take the role of Lincoln as Spielberg liked him from when they worked on Schindler's List but by 2010 he decided he had grown too old for the role. Shortly after Daniel Day Lewis was chosen to replace Neeson and began to fully immerse himself into the character of Lincoln and the movie has been described as "incredibly character-driven."

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

It has been confirmed by DreamWorks that the film will focus on the road to the end of the Civil war and hopes to show what Lincoln was like as a person as well as just a president from history. Spielberg stated that the original book was far too big to all be converted into a film so he just worked off one part of it.

Lincoln is released in the UK on 25th January 2013 and the trailer is embedded below: