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Watch: Teaser for Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Trailer Premiere This Thursday

by Ethan Anderton
September 10, 2012
Source: YouTube

We've already gotten a first look at Daniel Day-Lewis in his sure-to-be Oscar nominated turn as our nation's 16th President of the United States of America in an official first look photo and a theatrical poster for Lincoln. Now it's time to see the actor in action in this first teaser leading up to the actual trailer premiere on Thursday, September 13th at 7/6c. There will likely be clips tomorrow and Wednesday, but this will be the only one we post so everyone is fresh for the trailer this week. It's just a tease, but it looks like a powerful historical drama. Also, be sure to check out the Google hangout with Steven Spielberg and supporting star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, where they'll be talking to and taking questions from you. Watch!

Here's the teaser for Thursday's trailer premiere of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln via YouTube:

Update: The full-length trailer for Spielberg's Lincoln has debuted online - you can watch it here!

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which finished shooting last year, stars Daniel Day-Lewis (of My Left Foot, Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood) as our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, and focuses on the last four months of his life, guiding the North to victory during the Civil War. The cast includes Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Earle Haley, Lee Pace, John Hawkes, Walton Goggins, Hal Holbrook, Tim Blake Nelson and David Oyelowo. The film has a screenplay by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Munich), based on many books about Lincoln's life. Disney, releasing the DreamWorks production, will debut Lincoln in limited theaters starting on November 9th, expanding wide on the 16th.

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JerseyBoy

No Vampires? Instant box office failure...nice try Spielberg won't "suck" me into this one. I made a pun if you were wondering.
DAVIDPD

I am over this trailer for trailers thing...shit or get off the pot.
- beevis
  
  i am too. when i was growing up in 70s-80s, all we ever saw was a tv ad here and there. now there are teasers, teasers FOR the trailer; trailers; and don't forget all the viral nonsense......not to mention directors vids that have them discussing the films while showing snippets of it - it's too much.
  - Greg dinskisk
    
    They've had teasers for years now, they're here to stay, sorry. Also, 'viral nonsense?' Viral games are made specifically for the users, fun kinda stuff. It's to advertise the film more, obviously, but for people that are going to watch it either way... I don't get your comment.
    - DAVIDPD
      
      What beevis and I are trying to say is having a teaser for trailer is fine, but having a teaser for a teaser that is only released online to bait people, is not fine. It's bullshit. Look at PROMETHEUS if you want to see a jumping shark.
      - beevis
        
        exactly!
      - Mike Pasquariello
        
        This isn't a teaser for a teaser, this is a teaser to hold fans over until the real trailer. They don't have to release it, and you don't have to watch it. The Prometheus ones offered BTS dialogue, something that is a dying art and people often neglect on DVD's (or it's left out entirely) so it's nice to have that available elsewhere. "Viral" isn't nonsense. Again, not something you need to participate in... Any one of us have every right to skip over any and every article, trailer, poster, and even forgo the internet all together. Marketing and advertising are part of our culture and if they find new ways to give their product more exposure, whatever it may be, they are going to take advantage of it. Something like this is absolutely unobtrusive, and for fans to get excited that a trailer is coming. If you want to complain about marketing tactics, I think you should direct your hatred towards obtrusive ads that cover your screen when you visit a webpage, pops up during TV shows, both live and pre-recorded, etc. Something like this is pointless to get upset about. I've never heard fans of something get upset that they are getting more info/exposure/teasers/etc. of what they're waiting for.
      - DAVIDPD
        
        That's an interesting point-of-view. I disagree though. Rather than being upset at the teaser for a teaser, I am upset that the studios think we, the audience, need this. Sure it is true we do not have to consume the media set before us, but the mere fact they think we want/need this is ridiculous. Complaining is a two way street, just like you are complaining about Beevis and I, we the right/privilege to complain about what we want. You do not have to read it either. You can feel free to skip over it the minute you realize what it is. Marketing and advertising are a part of our culture, but that does not mean we must acquiesce to its requests. They may be unobtrusive but that does not mean we have to like. I have Adblock Plus for the Internet, and the pop-ups during TV actual make sense. They are not ads advertising ads.
    - beevis
      
      greg.....this is the 2nd time in a couple of days........ i'm not going to explain every one of my posts to you.
  - http://www.facebook.com/andrew.zachariason.9 Andrew Zachariason
    
    I like Teaser Trailers (Like The Dark Knight or The Dark Knight Rises) but these trailers for the actual trailer is just too much. All I need is an announcement that its coming.
beevis

i can't wait to see the full trailer!
- Baron the Curse
  
  I know right!!! Specially when the trailers these days tend to be better than the actual movie.
  - DAVIDPD
    
    lol. painfully true. T-T
  - Xerxexx
    
    nicely done.
truong18

why can't they just go ahead and release the trailer, what is the point of letting us waiting a few days.
jvj590

I bet he gets shot in the end!!
guest

The whole 'by the people, for the people' is such a joke. The US government is everything BUT that. America is a joke.
- beevis
  
  yea, right. and the govts of the rest of the world are wonderful? grow up.
- Tester
  
  Completely off-topic and unnecessary, but one which requires a response. America also has this thing called "freedom of choice" which gives U the freedom and choice not to visit this site nor read its articles. It also gives U the right, if living in America, to move the hell out... I for one, being an immigrant who loves America, would be more than happy to walk your ass to the door
mmmmmmmm

44 seconds? Jesus just release the fucking teaser trailer. A teaser for a film trailer? lol The fuck?????
Xerxexx

Soon there will be teasers teasing teasers while teasing a teaser!!!
- beevis
  
  god help us if the movie is named "teaser"!
  - DAVIDPD
    
    TEASER: THE TEASERING. Coming soon.
Chris Batty

Spielberg sucks now! War Horse. Indy 5. AI. I rest my case.
- rock
  
  Even so, I'll watch Day Lewis in a Uwe Boll film.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7YGEVuJ4mM Carpola
  
  War Horse, just by it's title alone was testicles.
- Xerxexx
  
  That was a joint effort of suck, Lucas and Spielberg both failed big time.
  - beevis
    
    yea - warhorse was the letdown of the year for me.
UKid

And still to this day we are fighting against the government for freedom!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brad-White/1458067169 Brad White

Accent not working for me...Sorry DD Lewis...