{"id":15278,"date":"2011-07-28T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:45:52","slug":"lee-pace-joins-spielbergs-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/28\/lee-pace-joins-spielbergs-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Pace Joins Spielberg\u2019s LINCOLN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lee Pace has signed onto the cast of Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming biopic Lincoln<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pace will be playing New York City mayor Fernando Wood, a rather colorful, if corrupt, politician. As New York\u2019s mayor, he argued in favor of the Confederate cause as he was part of a political machine that received illegal funds skimmed from the profitable cotton trade. He even went so far to as to suggest to the City Council that the city secede from the United States and declare itself a \u201cfree city,\u201d though they council pretty much laughed at the idea. Wood and Lincoln frequently traded correspondence over the issue.<\/p>\n

Daniel Day Lewis is set to star as the sixteenth president.<\/p>\n

Pace has also recently been cast in Peter Jackson\u2019s two-part adaption of J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Via Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The actor will play the rather colorful, pro-Confederacy Mayor of New York.<\/div>\n

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