Steven Spielberg will be doing Abraham Lincoln after finishing his ‘Tintin’ animation. He earlier announced he won’t be working on ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′ for the time being, because of the potential actors’ strike. He plans to film ‘Lincoln’ in 2009, so “that it can also open in the same year as Lincoln’s 200th anniversary which comes round then.”

Liam Neeson, next to be seen in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,’ is rumored to play the lead, with Sally Field (’Brothers & Sisters’) as Lincoln’s wife.