all of your books should inspire steven spielberg to make big films but he did this one here.e me behind the scenes of that relationship with spielberg taking him to springfield and how this project was born. >> he wanted to do lincoln for many years but wanted to wait until he was ready. i met him way back in 1989 on a documentary he was doing on the mill len yum and he had any shake hands about doing lincoln. as relaxation, he would say, what did lincoln do today. i would tell him, what he did, 1864, 1840. he decided he didn't want to wait for the book. he bought it and that meant he had it ready in his hands and put tony kushner on it and he always wanted daniel day-lewis. >> before we get to him, what is it about lincoln he wanted to share with a broader u. younger, new generation. >> he wanted to make lincoln a person you could identify with intimately. he chose a short story rather than a big fat thing to show his humor, sadness, conviction, political skills and he wanted to show that a politician can be a great guy at a time where we're cynical about politics. >> and po

steven spielberg and daniel day lewis ted diane sawyer about separating the man from the myth. >>> and walk on the wild side. up close and personal with a rare and fearsome predator. our reporter puts tail in hand to get to know the african white lion. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," november 9th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. when president obama strode into the east room of the white house this afternoon, we all knew that job one of term two is to hammer out some sort of deal with republicans to keep the federal government from veering off the so-called fiscal cliff. and we knew he would probably lay down some markers. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. i'm not going to d

the dream of director steven spielberg. the reluctant of daniel day lewis. tonight, for the first time here, together, telling how they brought a mythic president to life. our "persons of the week." >>> good evening. simply put, it was a shock today, when we learned that the general who symbolized the discipline and honor of the american military, the man entrusted with the vital secrets of the cia, general david petraeus, resigned, citing an extramarital affair. the first cia director in history to resign this way. and the story is still breaking. so, we go straight to abc's senior foreign affairs correspondent, martha raddatz. >> reporter: diane, this news is truly stunning. this is no one in the military who was viewed as more disciplined and, frankly, more concerned with his own image and own career. but the seriousness of having a cia director involved in an extramarital affair cannot be overplayed. as cia director, petraeus held all of the nation's secrets, but was keeping a big one of his own. today, in a statement to cia employees, the man considered

. >> i'm making my movie for spielberg right now. he told me to make a movie and send it to him. we just finished. we shot it, we're editing it this weekend and should be done the next couple of weeks so we're sending it off to spielberg. >> this is such great news. good luck to you and thanks again for getting up so early to talk with us. >> any time and follow me on twitter. i'll have my review of flight tomorrow morning. i'm so sorry the screening was cancelled but i'll have the review tomorrow morning i promise. >> isn't that awesome? >> that's huge. he's up against those people and -- >> and he's making a movie and giving it to spielberg? i'd be nervous. >> i know. >> that looks like a pretty nice hotel room he was in too. he used to be in those small boxes. now he's got the big deck out there. >> dealing with spielberg, things are changes. >> he really wants to take it to the next level he should put us in the movie. >> i'm working on that. >> looks like your forecast, i want to remind you one more time that you've got some tim

and spielberg, it is not on that level but it is still a spielberg film and you have one of most incredibleances from an actor you've seen in a long time. daniel craig had nothing to work with when it came to lincoln's voice. there is no known recordings of lincoln's voice. he researched and found out he had a high-pitched voice. he went with that. in the movie, it take place over last four months of lincoln's life while he is trying to abolish slavery. spielberg has that amazing direction where he is able to allow to engage in a story that you know the ending to and still feel on the end of your seat. >> some of this was shot in richmond. >> yes. that is correct. it starts off slow. i didn't like how spielberg put seattle cards over the characters in certain scenes. as we get to the end and we're dealing with being in the house of representatives, it gets intense. and daniel day lewis is intense. i think he will be nominated for an academy award inform that list will be john hawke for the second-degrees, den el for flight. lots of strong performances this year. -- denzel for flight. next w

. >>> and finally for us this morning, the new movie about an old american hero, steven spielberg's "or daniel day-lewis took the leading role, apparently, he turned into him even when the cameras weren't rolling. more from abc's david wright. >> save yourself. >> reporter: he's a british actor embodying an american icon. >> i like how he does. >> reporter: according to the experts, daniel day-lewis nailed it. >> for this moment now, now, now! >> i've seen a lot of performances, and i've never seen anyone delve as deeply into lincoln's soul. >> reporter: daniel day-lewis immerses himself into it. while filming "my left foot" he remained in a wheelchair during takes. while filming in the last of the mow keek hands." and he got in just as deeply as the 16th president. >> i had a feeling for him in a way i've never had a feel for. >> reporter: on set, steven spielberg addresseded him as mr. president. >> i try not to dismember a character and wife into components. work on one area and then another. >> reporter: spielberg purposely waited until after the election to release this movie, re

when steven spielberg is taking on lincoln and daniel day-lewis is going to be lincoln. there are all kinds of signs around a project like this, this is going to beat massive. it is not about winning the academy award. if you are an actor, this is the kind of stuff that you want in your career to be a part of. is there any truth to that? >> there is a truth to it but it is not quite the same as you said. it is to me to have the opportunity and the privilege to do that kind of work with that kind of excellence around you, that it be the screenplay, standing across from the brilliant daniel day-lewis, or tommy lee jones or the cast was not to be believed. or that you work with the brilliant, masterful film maker of our times, probably, steven spielberg, at the height of his artistry. and that everyone in front of the camera and behind the camera are just simply as good as it gets. and that is why i would want to be a part of it. i have worked all my life, all of my life, all of my miles in the saddle to add up to be able to be good enough to be in that arena and go toto in

abraham lincoln getting the big screen treatment courtesy of steven spielberg. here's nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: he may have started out the poor self-educated son of homesteaders, but for thousands of school children who visit the museum honoring his presidency every week abraham lincoln remains a beacon whose convictions shaped a nation. >> he did a lot for our country. we can learn from the past to help improve what our future is going to be. >> reporter: at 6'4" abraham lincoln was a tall man of even greater historic stature. >> he did a lot, especially for my culture as far as with the emancipation proclamation and his thoughts and ideas of how to really run our country. i thought it was pretty cool. >> reporter: presidents may not have been considered cool in the 1860s, but this one is about to become a hollywood star. >> i like our chances now. >> reporter: a century and a half after his death, lincoln is impeccably portrayed by daniel day-lewis. >> still to afford this moment now, now, now. >> reporter: the film has been a decade-long labor of lov

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you also wrote the screenplay to "munich" with stephen spielberg now you are the screen writeer for the knew movie "lincoln." (cheers and applause) were you daunted at all approaching a figure this iconic? someone so huge in our minds? someone we all think of as old. old uncle penny face? (laughter) >> never occurred to me to think of him as olds uncle penny face. it was scary. i didn't want to do it original because i didn't know that it was going to be possible. >> stephen: did spielberg have something on you? did he blackmail you? >> well, doris kearns goodwin who's been on the show. >> stephen: friend of the show. >> she was a very persuasive and lovely person and great writer and she talked me into it and i loved working with steven on "munich" so i figured it was a good thing to try. >> stephen: when doris was on she said something i hadn't heard before. she said -- she looked at "lincoln" and she said "isn't he sexy?" she said she's been saying for years lincoln is sexy and people think she's crazy. you must have -- you must have got to know something about the man as you were re

tonight we talked to the woman behind the story, doris goodwin, who wrote the book, steven spielberg read it, and the rest really is history. >> said it was the faithful. billions in bondage, and many to come. >> i imagined this man, lincoln, from the moment i woke up to going to bed, suddenly he is on screen, back in our lives again. it is an extraordinary experience to see him become abraham lincoln. >> you make the character, you live with this person, seldom do you get to see such a situation rise from your work. >> and the most amazing thing, both spielberg and daniel day-lewis, cared so much about detail they asked to go to springfield, to go to the law offices and the museum. and what do you want to know about? what was the right thing, what did he sound like? what is his voice like? so we knew from the period at that time that he had a high-pitched voice that could go over the crowds. you had people in the debates, lincoln's could go to the end of the crowd. they wanted to know how he walked. we knew he walked like a laborer, that he felt like he had a burden on his shoulders

>> well, it's lincoln. >> rose: yes. >> and it's steven spielberg and it's tony kushner. and then you start going down the line, tommy jones, salliefield. and it's daniel-day lewis. and the day-to-day was unlike any experience i had taken part in, and particularly i think from daniel's and i don't really want to speak too his process or-- but what-- and steven in many ways augmented this day-to-day process in which we were in 1864. that's where. >> rose: that's where daniel was. >> yes, and you could choose to be there but if you didn't want throb you would remove yourself from whatever the energy of the room. but he brought to it such-- such precision and focus and why i say sack remental t was something very, very, what's the word, precious, you know. >> rose: to be cherished. >> to be invested and cherished. to investigate this man and this top eck at this moment. and all the other constituent parts being spielberg and dreamworks and all that. >> rose: and the relationship with all these people to lincoln and how that defined him. >> exactly. and doris's book team of r

. >>> finally this half-hour, one of the most talked about movies of the year, steven spielberg's lincolnait to seep this one. stepping into what that lead role would be, daunting for anybody, for any actor. daniel day-lewis didn't just perform the part of lincoln,ly became him. abc's david wright explains how. >> it's done. >> reporter: a british actor embodying an american icon. >> i look our chances now. >> reporter: according to the experts. daniel day-lewis nailed it. >> now, now, now! >> i have seen a lot of performances. i have never seen any one delve as deeply. >> reporter: daniel day-lewis immerses himself in his roles. in fill temperatuming my left f remand in a wheelchair between takes. in playing hawk eye in last of the mohicans he lived in the wilderness, killing and skinning his own din ter. as the actor recently told time mag zazine he got just as deepl into the president. >> i had a feeling for him i have never been able to feel from him i never met. >> reporter: on set, steven spielberg addressed him as mr. president. day lewis did send text messages to other cast member

it is a spielberg spectacular and i have to give "lincoln" a full bucket.anchez, abc7 news and we will see you on the isle. >> up next, it's a sport, of course. with thrills, frills and flash down at the red bull >> the annual red bull flugtag contest dropped into san francisco this holiday weekend. it was held yesterday at mccovey cove. the first san francisco visit in ten years. 32 teams spread their wings, attempting the longest flight. few of them made it more than ten or fifteen feet. the team that won is from the bay area. the november mustaches reached a distance of 54 feet. i bet that water was cold when they dropped in there like that, lisa. >> oh, yeah. we are starting to the just as cold? morning with 30s in the east bay. frost advisories in the north bay but it's chilly everywhere. warmer this afternoon, 58 downtown. plenty of veterans ceremonies and parades today. it should be a great day. 61 napa as well as livermore and down by the monterey bay. it will take time but you, too, will warm into the lower 60s. rain holds off until the end of the

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you know, george lucas or steven spielberg.chrader: my theory is that the reason orson welles scared hollywood to death is because he inserted his personality in the most... elephantine, multi-talented way into cinema and it was just terrifying to see that much personality. the directors who had a style worked in certain channels-- the hitchcock style, the sturges style the ford style, the lubitsch style. there was a way they did it but they were working in the corporate conglomerate way. uh, orson welles was saying, "screw all of this. i'm going to reinvent movies." and, well, they got rid of him. and then, you know, with the nouvelle vague and then with bertolucci finally... this has now taken root in hollywood which is why hollywood is so anxious and confused at the moment because they know they have to give money to spike lee and to quentin tarantino and they don't like that fact. eventually they can co-opt them, hopefully. or make money off of them and hold their nose while they do it. uh, now the question i'm trying to as

. >> lincoln is sensational in steven spielberg's best in many, many years and it looks like that's going to be a major contender. the movie critic peak hammond of the deadline .com is tracking of the early oscar favorites >> critics say that oscars love to a low 7. >> now with skype fall the love-double 07,--skyfall starting to talk about james bond being in the best picture race is a great possibility >> also, people are >> about the race is not over yet, some possible contenders have not even opened yet. "les miserables from universal. a huge che an hugh jackman ,anne hathaway and russeell crow the big musical of the season based of the broadway show obviously. >> everybody is looking at that one and the other rows are looking at that like i hope it is not good, and but it's not good. >> are there any individual performances that is really good? >> the tightest actor. >> having you with anthony hopkins also, there is a daniel day-lewis, as apri purdue lincoln and also bill murray as hyde park on behalf of the portrayal of roosevelt. we of the battle of the presidency. >> i love him, i

. >> reporter: on set, steven spielberg addressed him as mr. president.is did send text messages to other cast members, but signed them "a" for abe lincoln. >> i try not to dismember a character, a life, into its component parts and work on one area and then another. >> reporter: spielberg purposely waited until after the election to release this movie. recognizing that lincoln is still politically relevant. ♪ lincoln ♪ lincoln >> reporter: from lincoln ck on "snl" to this punch line. >> good news for mitt romney. he's won tonight, we can announce this tonight, most of the confederacy. >> reporter: our house is divided, still. >> red is blue is still better than blue and gray. >> shall we stop this leading? >> reporter: david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> "lincoln," distributed bid our parent company, disney, opening next weekend. >>> that is the broadcast. "good morning america," first thing in the morning. diane here tomorrow night. as we say good night, we go back to the little boy and that moment that struck us all today. his father is now home. o

she stars opposite daniel day-lewis in steven spielberg's highly anticipated new movie, "lincoln."d is here! [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: oh, come on! >> jimmy: gorgeous. >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: so fun. [ applause ] he is a very, very funny man. we met on "saturday night live" a few years ago. finesse mitchell is stopping by the show. >> steve: oh! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's got 100 things going on. "a.n.t. farm." >> steve: he's wonderful. [ applause ] >> jimmy: plus, he is an entrepreneur and ceo to the aerospace company, spacex, and tesla motors. elon musk is dropping in. >> steve: oh. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this guy's a genius. he's fascinating. and we have great music from lee brice tonight! [ cheers and applause ] oh, man. this guy's a good time. [ applause ] good country music there. hey, guys, it's time to take a look at the stories making headlines today and weigh the good with the bad. it's time for "pros and cons." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ pros and cons and pros and cons and pros ♪ >> jimmy: tonight, we'll be taking a look at

it is a spielberg spectacular and i have to give "lincoln" a full bucket.e will see you on the isle. >> coming up next, the thrills, spills and flash down at the red alright let's break it down. mom, pop it. ♪ two inches apart, becky. two inches. t-minus nine minutes. [ ding ] [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls. let the making begin. ♪ that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design? a toaster strudel. pillsbury toaster strudel. so delicious...so fun. >> here are the winning numbers from last night's winning super lotto plus. don't get too excited. no one picked all six numbers. wednesday night's jackpot is estimated at $11 million. >> the annual red bull flugtag contest dropped into san francisco this holiday weekend. it was held yesterday at mccovey cove. the first san francisco visit in ten years. 32 teams spread their wings, attempting the longest flight. few of them made it more than ten or fifteen feet. the team that won is from the bay area. they call themselves nov

feeling for him i have never been able to feel from him i never met. >> reporter: on set, steven spielbergent. day-lewis did send text messages to other cast members, but signed them "a" for abe lincoln. >> i try not to dismember a character, a life into its component parts and work on one area and then another. >> reporter: spielberg purposely waited until after the election to lease this movie, recognizing that lincoln is still politically relevant. ♪ lincoln ♪ lincoln ♪ lincoln >> reporter: from lincoln ck on "snl" to this "daily show" punch line election night. >> good news for mitt romney, he has most of the confederacy. >> reporter: our house is divided still. >> red and blue is still better than blue and gray. >> shall we stop this bleeding? >> reporter: david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> i can't wait. >> i smell oscar. >> oh, no question about it. >> done. >> i don't know if you've read "team of rivals" by doris kearns goodwin. many people have. it's based loosely on that. of course, tons of oscar buzz. >> you know it's going to be good. opens nationwide this coming friday. go

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it is a spielberg spectacular and i have to give len con a full bucket.l see you on the isle. >> a full bucket with a few kernels spilling over thereof. coming up next, it's a sport of sorts. the thrills, and flash down of the red bull competition in san ♪ [ female announcer ] nature exists on the grandest scale... ♪ ...and in the tiniest details. ♪ and sometimes both. nature valley granola thins pack the big taste of granola and dark chocolate into one perfect square, under 100 calories. nature valley granola thins. nature at its most delicious. >> the annual red bull fluke top contest dropped into san francisco this holiday weekend. it was held yesterday at mccovey cove. the first san francisco visit in ten years. 32 teams spread their wings, attempting the lockest flight. few of them made it more than ten or fifteen feet. the team that won is from the bay area. the november mustaches reached a distance of 54 feet. >>> coming up next at six, we will tell you about some of the veteran's day events today. also, freezing temperatures in parts of the bay ar