Steven Spielberg is planning to follow up his upcoming drama Lincoln with the action film Robopocalypse. However, he’s still considering other projects for his future slate, and Spielberg is reportedly in talks to adapt the non-fiction novel No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden. The book is from the perspective of Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette (under the pseudonym Mark Owen). The key difference between this story and Kathryn Bigelow‘s upcoming Osama Bin Laden drama Zero Dark Thirty is that her film appears to take place from multiple perspectives covering the entire operation to kill the Al Qaeda leader.

Hit the jump for more. [Update: Spielberg spokesman Mark Levy told THR, “Neither Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Studios or DreamWorks Television will be optioning Mark Owen’s book, No Easy Day.” The original story follows after the jump.]

According to the NY Post [via The Playlist], Bissonnette has taken the project to HBO and DreamWorks, and the latter currently seems to be the more promising of the two opportunities. However, it’s worth noting that since Spielberg is an executive at DreamWorks, he won’t necessarily get in the director’s chair. He may simply come on board as a producer. If Spielberg does get involved as a director, and sticks to giving Robopocalypse first priority, we won’t see the adaptation of No Easy Day until post-2014.

There’s also the issue that adapting the book could run into legal difficulties since Bissonette should have kept certain aspects of the mission classified in the interest of national security, and operations chief Adm. Bill McRaven has said the author could be prosecuted for publishing this information.

Here’s the synopsis for No Easy Day: