Two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis is set to play Abraham Lincoln in the film version of "Team of Rivals," based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of the president, according to EW.com. Steven Spielberg will direct the film titled, "Lincoln," featuring a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner.
The movie will focus on Lincoln and his cabinet as they struggle with the abolishment of slavery and try to find and end to the Civil War. The film is scheduled to begin filming in the fall of 2011, with an expected release in the fall of 2012.
Day-Lewis won Oscars for his performances in "There Will Be Blood" and "My Left Foot." He received Academy Award nominations for his work in "Gangs of New York" and "In the Name of the Father." Recently, he was seen in the film version of the musical "Nine."
Tony Kushner's new play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key To The Scriptures will premiere at
The Public Theater in March. Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; and Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer
Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted and translated
Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk,
Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by
Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for
Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America, and
Steven Spielberg's Munich. His books include Brundibar, with illustrations by
Maurice Sendak; The Art of
Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination, among other honors. In 2008, he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
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