Director Steven Spielberg on the set of INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008).
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From Indy to Tintin to Lincoln

With INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL to arrive in theaters in just a couple of weeks, Steven Spielberg is setting his sight on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.

Spielberg told German weekly magazine FOCUS that he might possibly begin filming the movie early in 2009. 

Variety reports, Tony Kushner wrote the script, which is based on the biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Actor Liam Neeson agreed to play the part of Lincoln over three years ago. 

The director will first shoot TINTIN in early fall. As reported back in July 2007, Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to make three films based on the character of Tintin. Each filmmaker will direct at least one of the movies but no one has been set/decided upon for the third film. Spielberg, Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy will produce all three films, which could possibly be released through DreamWorks Animation.

The trilogy will be based on the comic-strip hero Tintin created by Georges Remi. Spielberg and Jackson have selected three stories from THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN series, which encompasses 23 books, to base the films on. Spielberg first lined up the rights to the books from Remi's estate back in  December 2002.