VERY GOOD. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Just added to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis: Mad Men's Jared Harris (Lane Pryce) is Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. (He's also co-starring as Moriarty in the new Sherlock Holmes film.)
With Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln; Joseph Gordon-Levitt as assassination magnet Robert Todd Lincoln; Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens; and David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward.
How much of a nerd does it make me to say that I'll be the first in line for this movie and that I laughed out loud at the article when it referenced Grant's "unconditional commitment to not putting extraneous vowels in things"? Bonus nerd points for forcing the familyt through Shiloh, Vicksburg (a personal, guided tour on that one) and Gettysburg on different road trips the last couple of years.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Daniel Day-Lewis. I still haven't forgiven him for There Will Be Blood. (Smart money says that I never will.). I really don't trust myself to watch this film and not start cheering for him to get slapped in the face, as inappropriate as it would be to hope for that to happen to, you know, my favorite president.
ReplyDelete<span>I've always said that Daniel Day-Lewis is something of an Oscar-sniffer. It's nice to see he's finally slumming it with a nice popcorn movie. I loved Seth Grahame-Smith's book, and in Spielberg's hands, I'm sure this is going to be a high-quality flick that we can all enjoy!</span>
ReplyDeleteComing from a Georgian, I'm surprised at this. I liked his southern urban policy, but didn't think you did.
ReplyDelete(Guest was me)
ReplyDeleteThat one gives us Benjamin Walker (best known for playing Andrew Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and being Meryl Streep's son-in-law) as Lincoln, Alan Tudyk as Douglas, and Anthony Mackie as Desmond Pfeffer (wait, I mean William Johnson).
ReplyDeleteYou should probably recognize that, by a southerner's standard, I'm not much of a southerner. Also, I was a philosophy major, so....
ReplyDeleteHmm. That didn't work so well. That Guest = me.
ReplyDeleteAs a federal judge I knew well liked to say "Nicest thing about Atlanta is that it's just twenty miles from the south."
ReplyDelete...Wait, that's a different movie?
ReplyDeleteWay to suck, Spielberg/Day-Lewis.