Trailer for Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN to Debut in Times Square, 9/13

By: Sep. 05, 2012
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Today it was announced that the trailer for Steven Spielberg's highly-anticipated film LINCOLN will debut at a live-broadcast in Times Square in New York City through Google+ Hangout on September 13 at 4pm PT. Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who plays Robert Todd Lincoln across from Daniel Day Lewis' Abraham Lincoln) will also have a live conversation as part of the event. 

LINCOLN is set to be released on November 9, 2012 from DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox film, in association with Participant Media. The film is a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

In addition to Day-Lewis, the cast includes Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, HAl Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln” is produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin.



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