--Kim Basinger could soon be taking on a more conservative role than usual. She is in negotiations to star as the First Lady in a new political thriller called 'The Sentinel,' according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Michael Douglas is already signed on to play a Secret Service agent who has an affair with the First Lady, thus becoming a suspect in a plot to assassinate the president. Kiefer Sutherland of Fox's "24" is also reportedly in talks to join the cast as an agent in the upcoming movie.

--Northern Ireland native Liam Neeson is set to take star in another biopic - as celebrated American President Abraham Lincoln. The actor is currently in talks with director Steven Spielberg to take on the lead role in the film, which will follow the US leader as he guides the North to victory in the Civil War.

Spielberg, currently working on War Of The Worlds with Tom Cruise, has expressed a desire to make a movie about Lincoln since 2001, when the rights to the upcoming biography The Uniter: The Genius Of Abraham Lincoln were bought by Dreamworks.

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Posted by Lawren at January 17, 2005 06:36 AM

You Said

Do you know if that is a re-make of the old war of the worlds??

Says: at January 17, 2005 11:33 AM

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The most beautiful civil war era film ever made - Gone With the wind - was an almost entirely British cast. Why shouldn't the Lincoln biopic be the same??

RG

Says: RightGirl at January 17, 2005 06:55 PM

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