I Heart History

I’m a huge history nerd and I’m very lucky that my brother loves history, especially American History, as much as I do. I don’t know anyone else who I could have a conversation with about who we would cast in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film about Abraham Lincoln based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals (we both agree that Liam Neeson is an uninspired choice for Lincoln and I think I nailed it with my fantasy casting of Chris Cooper as William Seward).

So my history-hard-on makes me incredibly psyched for HBO’s upcoming seven-part mini-series, John Adams, based on David McCullough’s best-selling biography. Check this cast: Paul Giamatti as Adams, Laura Linney as Abigail Adams, Danny Huston as Samuel Adams, David Morse as George Washington, Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin, and Rufus Sewell as Alexander Hamilton. I love history and movies so that casting gets me aroused. The promo below doesn’t do that much for me but I imagine it’s difficult squeezing a seven-hour miniseries into a two-minute ad.