According to a recent article in Variety, John Williams will start scoring Steven Spielberg’s upcoming biopic Lincoln late next spring. The project will mark the composer’s and director’s 26th collaboration. The movie will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, David Strathairn, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Jeremy Strong and Joseph Cross are co-starring in the film. Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Munich) adapted Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 book Team of Rivals. Spielberg is producing the DreamWorks production with Kathleen Kennedy. Lincoln is expected to be released in the fall of 2012 by Touchstone Pictures.
Williams and Spielberg who have two movies coming out this Christmas (The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse) have recently been featured in the first episode of TCM’s new series AFI’s Master Class: The Art of Collaboration. The one-hour special focuses on the 40-year collaboration between the filmmaker and the composer and includes a discussion of the films that they have collaborated and concludes with a Q&A session with AFI Fellows. The episode premiered yesterday, November 15, but check your local listings for repeat airings and visit TCM’s website for more information on the show.
