Spielberg Reveals Lincoln Poster

[RJNorton]

Steven Spielberg explained why he left the assassination out:

"Steven Spielberg says cutting the assassination scene from his Abraham Lincoln film was an “easy” decision to make.

Spielberg’s movie Lincoln tells the story of the late President of the United States as he faced difficult decisions during the Civil War.

Lincoln was famously assassinated in 1865, but the director decided not to show the incident in his intimate portrait of the politician.

“The decision was pretty easy to make, because I think had we taken it right up to the assassination, the film would've become exploitation,” he explained to Mania.

“And I didn’t want to go anywhere near that. That’s a very scary word, especially when you’re dealing with history. Nothing could be gained by showing that. I did not want to exploit the assassination, which has been depicted in other films ad nauseam.”

The gripping biopic stars Daniel Day-Lewis and is set for worldwide release early next year.

For Spielberg, the film is something he has always wanted to do and stems from an interest in Lincoln he has had since childhood.

“I’ve always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln,” he confessed.

“My fascination with Lincoln started as a child, then got to the point where – after reading so much about him – I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to moviegoers, and that’s how this whole fascination began."

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