Lincoln In The Bardo Movie Updates

Mon., Apr. 3, 2017

from Deadline

Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman Snag Movie Rights To Bestseller ‘Lincoln In The Bard...

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have acquired movie rights to Lincoln In The Bardo.

• added a synopsis

• Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgeto... show all wn cemetery. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

• added drama as genre
• changed the production status to Announced
• added George Saunders as producer to credits
• added Nick Offerman as producer to credits
• added Megan Mullally as producer to credits
• created the movie profile