Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Trailer

After a brief teaser trailer [1] showing us Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, the first official trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln has been unleashed.

The movie, which is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, focuses on Lincoln after his reelection in 1864 as he tries to end the Civil War and pass the 13th Amendment.

The screenplay was written by John Logan, Tony Kushner, and Paul Webb. John Williams serves as the film’s music composer.  The cast is rounded out with Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley, Jared Harris, John Hawkes, Tommy Lee Jones, and many more.

Lincoln was voted as one of the Top 15 Most Anticipated Films by YAM Magazine and it is set to premiere on November 16, 2012.