Jeremy Robust’s Roy Cohn coaches Sebastian Stan’s Donald Trump within the first clip of Ali Abassi’s controversial new movie.
Final week, it was reported that Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Leisure has bought Ali Abbasi’s upcoming controversial movie The Apprentice, which particulars Donald Trump’s rise within the real-estate enterprise. Briarcliff has scheduled the movie to be launched weeks earlier than the U.S. Presidential Election on October 11. Moreover, the studio plans to provide the film an awards push. The upcoming Thunderbolts star, Sebastian Stan, shall be taking up the duty of enjoying Trump, and Succession‘s Jeremy Robust will painting Trump’s one-time consigliere, Roy Cohn.
Briarcliff Leisure has now posted the primary footage from The Apprentice on their official social media web page with a brand new clip. Within the clip, Jeremy Robust’s Cohn coaches Stan’s Trump on a telephone name interview. The put up, which options the clip, additionally has a caption that reads, “Recent from flip away crowds and standing ovations on the Cannes and Telluride movie festivals, THE APPRENTICE, starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Robust as Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. #TheApprentice is completely in theaters October 11.”
The Apprentice‘s story will comply with the period of Trump’s life from his twenties via his late thirties. It’s going to “look at his efforts to construct his actual property enterprise in New York over the course of the ’70s and ’80s, additionally digging into his relationship with notorious lawyer Roy Cohn.” The movie description additionally provides that the venture is “billed as an exploration of energy and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty.” Alongside Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Robust, Borat 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s Maria Bakalova additionally signed on to play Ivana Trump.
The venture was penned by long-time Vainness Truthful Donald Trump chronicler Gabriel Sherman, whose e book The Loudest Voice within the Room impressed the Showtime sequence starring Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. It’s stated that within the time earlier than its large launch, the movie is being deliberate to display screen at some fall movie festivals and it is going to be receiving a full-on awards marketing campaign, which Ortenberg has been profitable in with previous initiatives like Crash and Highlight.
