Steven Spielberg is finally ready to begin filming his long-planned biopic of slain US president Abraham Lincoln.
The filmmaker's next screen project, following his first live-action Tintin movie, was due to be Chicago Seven - which told the true life story of the famed 1960s trial about a group of protesters at a Democratic convention in 1968. However, the film is now being pushed back due to script concerns, leaving the Lincoln film to be brought forward.
The biopic will begin filming in 2009 because the Jaws director wants the film to "open in the same year as Lincoln's 200th anniversary which comes round then".
Schindler's List star Liam Neeson has previously been linked to play the famous US president.
In other Spielberg news, he told German magazine FOCUS that the possibility of an actors strike this summer would not affect work on the new Tintin movie.
"That doesn't affect us as it is an animation film with motion capture technology," he said.