It hasn’t even started shooting yet, but apparently screenwriter Tony Kushner is done with his “Lincoln” script for Steven Spielberg and a “decision will be made on [the project] next week,” according to Hollywood Elsewhere.
Kushner was taking part in a discussion at a Harvard University Institute of Politics forum panel discussion called “Looking For Lincoln: In his Time and Ours — A Conversation on the Meaning of Abraham Lincoln,” and one of HE’s readers emailed in the info.
Apparently if the project is greenlit, it could be “out by Christmas” but that sounds like intense wishful thinking to us. Massive sets, costumes and presumably CGI would be implemented and even though Spielberg is a notoriously fast shooter, a Christmas release date seems totally far fetched.
Apparently, Kushner’s “Lincoln,” script only “covers two months of his life,” and that “the first draft covered four months and [was] 500 pages” long. The abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude is evidently a “big thing in the movie.”