Ali Abbasi’s film follows a younger Donald Trump’s rise underneath mentor Roy Cohn.
Ali Abbasi’s film follows a younger Donald Trump’s rise underneath mentor Roy Cohn.
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice launched its first trailer on Tuesday forward of the much-discussed film’s October launch.
The movie, from director Ali Abbasi and author Gabriel Sherman, follows Sebastian Stan as a younger Trump underneath the mentorship of Jeremy Sturdy‘s Roy Cohn. Upon its premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Might, The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney wrote that the film is “a reverse reflection of the mentorship course of, wherein the host turns into the hungry younger upstart, laying the foundations for a enterprise empire constructed partially out of smoke and mirrors, and working underneath the steering of a grasp manipulator.”
A number of months later, the venture was acquired by Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Leisure for a pre-election launch on Oct. 11. The distribution information got here on the heels of a number of months of rigidity between the film and the Trump marketing campaign, the latter of which issued authorized threats in opposition to potential distributors.
“A younger Donald Trump wanting to make his identify as a hungry second son of a rich household in Seventies New York, comes underneath the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat lawyer who would assist create the Donald Trump we all know at this time,” the movie’s description reads. “Cohn sees in Trump the proper protégé—somebody with uncooked ambition, a starvation for achievement, and a willingness to do no matter it takes to win.”
The Apprentice will seem at some fall movie festivals within the lead-up to Oct. 11 and be handled to a full awards marketing campaign.
Watch the trailer beneath.
