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Sally Field, long rumoured to be playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s long-delayed Abe Lincoln pic – – still has the role, only now it’s official cos, well, the film’s purportedly going to happen this time.
“I’m excited to be working with Sally for the first time,” said Steven Spielberg. “I’ve admired her films and she has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln.”
“To have the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis and to play one of the most complicated and colorful women in American history is simply as good as it gets,” said Sally Field.
Field, who was attached to play the female lead in the film opposite former lead Liam Neeson, is expected to get all first lady-like in the fall, when the flick starts rolling.
Daniel Day-Lewis is playing President Lincoln; he replaced Neeson when the “A-Team” actor disattached himself due to the film’s numerous delays.
Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.
It is anticipated that the film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.
“Lincoln” will be released via Disney’s Touchstone label.
