From “Team of Rivals” to “Lincoln”

So Daniel Day-Lewis is going to star in Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln. He’ll probably do a good job with role. He’s a great actor.

What I’m more curious about is how the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Team of Rivals will be adapted to a movie. I read that it will focus on the last four months of Lincoln’s life. Now I may be remembering wrong, but wasn’t the gist of the book about how all these men with competing and sometimes conflicting views came together to form a “Dream Team”?

If so, then wouldn’t a lot of the focus need to be on the time around when Lincoln was elected as the 16^th President of the United States?

And if the movie doesn’t capture this storyline, then is it truly adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s books?

Steven Spielberg will be directing so I think I can safely say that he’ll make a good movie. I just hope that he makes the right movie. I’d hate to see the book ruined by a poor movie.

 

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