Spielberg

I always anticipate a new Spielberg film. (He is my other big star sighting. I saw him shopping for CDs at Borders with his children a few years back.) Here's some news:

Steven Spielberg's long-anticipated biopic of Abraham Lincoln is finally going ahead, with Liam Neeson in negotiations to play the US president who initiated the American civil war.
The Jaws director first expressed interest in bringing Lincoln's life to the big screen four years ago but other projects, including Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can, filled his schedule. Now, Neeson, who played the lead in Spielberg's Schindler's List, is in talks to portray arguably America's most revered president.

The film is to be adapted from a yet-unpublished biography by Pulitzer prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Spielberg is said to identify with Lincoln, who, like the director, was tormented by stress and medical problems.
Filming is to start next January, but first Spielberg needs to complete his adaptation of HG Wells's The War of the Worlds, scheduled for a June release. He may also choose to work first on Vengeance, a drama about the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.