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Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph-Gordon Levitt, both of whom have ties to the ‘Batman’ franchise (Jones played ‘Two-Face’ in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Forever” while Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to play a part in the upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises”), are among the actors being courted for Steven Spielberg’s long-gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic, simply titled “Lincoln”, says The Hollywood Reporter.
“Wall Street” co-stars Hal Halbrook and James Spader, John Hawkes of “Deadwood” fame, Bruce McGill (“Fair Game”), Tim Blake Nelson (“Oh Brother Where Art Thou”) and Joseph Cross (“Milk”) are also in negotiations to join the pic, headlined by as Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States and Sally Field as his wife, Mary Todd.
Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and congressman from Pennsylvania. Stevens was a staunch supporter of abolishing slavery and was critical to writing the legislation that funded the American Civil War.
Gordon-Levitt will take on the role of Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Lincoln and the only one to live past his teenage years.
The other actors will make up the supporting roles in this telling of Lincoln’s journey to abolish slavery and end the Civil War.
The project, at one time set to star Liam Neeson as Lincoln, will shoot in Virginia this fall.
