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Another Lincoln is moving in at the Gettysburg address.
Billy Campbell (of “The Killing” and “Once and Again”) plays the 16th president in “Killing Lincoln,” the TV movie of Fox News Channel anchor Bill O’Reilly’s best seller airing next month on the National Geographic Channel.
Nat Geo, which has never attempted a scripted movie until now, yesterday said it has also given the go-ahead for a movie of O’Reilly’s follow-up book, “Killing Kennedy,” to air next year.
It may be an easier task than trying to get viewers to forget Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar-bait portrayal of Lincoln in the Steven Spielberg movie that came out last month.
The TV movie centers on Lincoln and the assassin, John Wilkes Booth (played by newcomer Jesse Johnson), in the days before the murder.
Tom Hanks — himself a distant relative of Lincoln — narrates the movie.