SPIELBERG TO DIRECT ABE LINCOLN BIO.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Variety is reporting that Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg is ready to do a biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] on Abraham Lincoln and is in discussions with Liam Neeson to play the 16th president as he led the northern states to victory in the Civil War. Spielberg has wanted to make a movie about Lincoln since 2001, when DreamWorks bought rights to a biography being written by Pulitzer Prize- winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an award-winning author and historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995, but her reputation was later damaged by her admission of plagiarism. . That book will be published next fall, under the title ``The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln.'' The Lincoln project is expected to start in January 2006. INDY See Indigo. PROJECT: J.J. Abrams is attached to direct Universal Pictures' ``The Good Sailor,'' a drama being written by Brent Hanley (``Frailty'') that revolves around the sinking of the cruiser USS Indianapolis Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Indianapolis, after the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.
On July 30, 1945, the Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. Hundreds went down with the ship, but about 900 sailors were left in shark-infested waters. The ship was never missed, and by the time the survivors were spotted by accident five days later, only 316 remained. The event was referred to in a famous monologue by Robert Shaw in ``Jaws.'' |
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