Lincoln Log

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln has been the pipeline seemingly forever...

Kim Masters who writes The Big Money column has outlined the reasons that the film may be in trouble-- financial difficulties and studio politics

Spielberg was aiming to finish the project by the end of 2009 and kick off filming within a few weeks, but DreamWorks Pictures SKG recent money woes have taken their toll and he's been waiting for executives at Paramount to decide whether to make the film and hire him to direct it.

DreamWorks intended to pay Paramount a large amount to retain the right to partner on and produce a separate batch of projects that it had to leave behind at the studio when it split, including "Lincoln".

To do that though they had to buy two completed films that it made during its time at Paramount - The Lovely Bones and "A Thousand Words".

Soon after, a source at Paramount told Masters that the studio has passed on the project - meaning its effectively dead for the near future.

Spielberg is current busy with his next film, the first of the "The Adventures of Tintin:" CG motion-capture films.

Considering what star Liam Neeson told Coming Soon about the film recently and Spielberg's full plate--I think Lincoln is at best kicked down the road until much later than the story implies unless someone else takes over...