Hallowed director Steven Spielberg has cast another Brit in upcoming live-action flick LINCOLN. Jared Harris, antagonist Professor Moriarty in upcoming sequel SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS, will play former US President Ulysses S. Grant.
Harris joins a range of famous faces already cast in the film, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones and fellow Brit Daniel Day-Lewis, who is set to play America’s most historically famous of Presidents, Abraham Lincoln.
The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, ‘Team Of Rivals’, with the screenplay adapted by Tony Kushner – focusing on Lincoln’s clashes with his cabinet towards the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses Grant was one of the United States’ more successful military commanders during this period, and promises to be a key role in the upcoming epic.
A Spielberg-directed biographical drama is always one to watch out for, and chances are LINCOLN will sweep the 2013 Oscars. Filming started in October 2011, and it’s due for release in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Source: Variety
