News Source: BBC
| 3 months ago
The Conspirator will tell the story of Mary Surratt, a Washington tavern owner allegedly involved in the conspiracy to shoot the US president in April 1865. Accused of supplying killer John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice with weapons, Surratt was...
News Source: Inquirer.net
| 3 months ago
Hollywood legend Robert Redford has signed up to direct a historical drama about the assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln, The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. Lincoln, whose presidential tenure took place during the 1861-1865 US civil war,...
News Source: Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
Robert Redford is getting back into the Washington scene with a film about a woman executed as an accessory in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...The project follows Redford's 2007 film "Lions for Lambs," a war-on-terror drama that he directed...
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 months ago
The former US president is to be the subject of two forthcoming features. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters Steven Spielberg 's plan for an Abraham Lincoln biopic, with Liam Neeson in the title role, is under threat from a rival project by fellow Oscar-...