Variety reports that Steven Spielberg has begun talks with Liam Neeson to play President Abraham Lincoln as he steers the North to victory in the Civil War. The plan is for the biopic to start production next January after a long series of delaying from production.

Comingsoon.net reports that the DreamWorks movie will be based on a bio being written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. That book will be published next fall, under the title “The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln.”

Neeson, who received a Golden Globe nomination for Kinsey and next appears in ?Kingdom of Heaven? and ?Batman Begins,” earned an Oscar nomination for playing Oskar Schindler in Spielberg’s ?Schindler’s List?.

A January 2006 start would further delay Spielberg’s long-planned film about the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics, where members of the Israeli team were held hostage and slain by Palestinian terrorists.

And if that wasn?t enough, USA Today caught up with various stars at Monday’s Critics’ Choice Awards, one in particular that stood out was potential Academy Award nominee and current Golden Globe nominee Jamie Foxx. Foxx sat down with USA Today and talked about a possible new project regarding the life story of former Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson. He’s already having his team look into acquiring the rights to Tyson’s story.

Anyone who has followed Foxx?s comedy in the past knows of his reoccurring rips into Mike Tyson in his stand-up and his hilarious Tyson impressions, so this one should be an interesting story as it unfolds.






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