Steven Spielberg is not new to the care of TV series as an executive producer, but he dreams of signing one, perhaps short, in person. And he reveals that with Lincoln he came very close …
Steven Spielberg was about to convert Lincoln in a TV series: the director, returning from double Golden Globes for his autobiographical The Fabelmans (best drama, best director), told how things went on the Smartless podcast, also confiding one of his dream: make a TV miniseriesyes movie director. Someone will already be calling him after listening to the interview…
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As well as Lincoln (2012) was not one of the greatest satisfactions of Steven Spielberg: The film won two deserved Oscarper Daniel Day-Lewis for best protagonist and for best scenography, being nominated in ten other categories. And yet, like Spielberg returning from his beautiful The Fabelmans he recalled, the first draft of the script nearly landed him on directorial signing his first miniseries for tv. Steven Spielberg has been involved in TV for a lifetime, parallel to cinema, but basically as a co-producer or executive producer. In this case we are talking about a possible mini-series event. Let’s imagine that the big platforms have already opened their ears well…
I was willing to do Lincoln like one six hour series, because I could not find the necessary funding. Nobody believed it… I went around and everyone said no. (…) I was ready to sign a contract with HBO to do that and expand it to six hours. Tony Kushner’s first script was 150 pages, so there was stuff! I had the material. I don’t know if I could have convinced Daniel Day-Lewis to do six hours, but I was about to do it. (…)
I would like to do something in installments and one day I will direct an episodic series. I mean, if someone had introduced me Omicidio a Easttown I would have, huh! (laughs) A beautifully directed story.
