Spielberg Picks Next Project

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Steven Spielberg will start shooting his long-anticipated Abraham Lincoln biopic after completing his Tintin movie.

The director, out promoting ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’, told reporters that he will return his attention to an epic project about the 16th president, with shotting beginning as early as next year.

The director had prepped the Aaron Sorkin-scripted ‘The Trial of the Chicago Seven’ but that became sketchy after he could not get rewrites during the writer’s strike.

Liam Neeson agreed to play Licoln more than three years ago for Spielberg and has been waiting for a start date.

EXTRAs: Spielberg had enlisted Sacha Baron Cohen and talked to other high profile actors about starring in a drama about the trial of anti-Vietnam war protesters at the 1968. No date has been set for the project.