https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/donald-trump-movie-the-apprentice-sebastian-stan-cannes-1235871795/ It’s official: Donald Trump — or at least a fictionalized version of him — is heading to Cannes.The prestigious French film festival unveiled its 2024 official film selection Thursday in Paris, and Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice was among the titles revealed for the event’s main competition.The biographical drama stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and explores his career as an aspiring real estate tycoon in the New York City of the 1970s and 1980s. The film is described as a mentor-protégé narrative that documents the start of an American dynasty and tackles themes including power, corruption and deception. It delves into the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn, the New York City prosecutor oft-remembered for working with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare. The movie’s official logline reads: “The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.”
Adding to the film’s must-watch buzziness, Succession star Jeremy Strong appears opposite Stan in the co-starring role of Cohn. And it gets better: Maria Bakalova, unforgettable for her breakthrough performance in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, plays Ivana Trump. Veteran character actor Martin Donovan is Donald’s father Fred Trump.The movie’s producers’ released a still giving a first look at the film Thursday, following the Cannes announcement. The image shows an intense Strong staring at a spooked-looking young Trump.Principal photography for The Apprentice began in November 2023 and only wrapped Jan. 28, 2024, suggesting a sprint through postproduction to be ready to premiere in Cannes in May. Many in the industry had thought the film was more likely to launch at the Venice or Toronto film festivals in the fall.Born in Iran, Abbasi has been based in Denmark, where he studied filmmaking, since the mid-2000s. His first feature, Shelley, an art house horror movie, premiered to strong reviews at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. He unveiled his second film, Border, at Cannes in 2018, winning the Un Certain Regard section. The movie was later selected as Sweden’s entry to the Oscars in the best foreign-language film category. His most recent feature, Holy Spider, a harrowing thriller about a real-life serial killer who targeted sex workers in Iran, was elevated to Cannes main competition in 2022. The film’s star, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, won the festival’s best actress award, and the film was picked as Denmark’s official Oscar entry, making the shortlist.Abbasi directed The Apprentice from a script by Gabriel Sherman, whose biography of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, The Loudest Voice in the Room, was the basis for Showtime’s 2019 miniseries The Loudest Voice, starring Russell Crowe.
Stan’s career has been on the rise in recent years, but he has some outsize shoes to fill — big, beautiful shoes (Trump voice) — in inhabiting The Donald. The actor earned an Emmy nomination for his role as drummer Tommy Lee in Hulu’s biographical miniseries Pam & Tommy opposite Lily James as Pamela Anderson. His other work includes this year’s Sony film Dumb Money, the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the 2017 fact-based movie I, Tonya.Producers of The Apprentice are Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films (Canada), Jacob Jarek for Profile Pictures (Denmark), Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde for Tailored Films (Ireland), Abbasi and Louis Tisné for Film Institute (Denmark). Executive producing are Amy Baer, Mark H. Rapaport, Emanuel Nunez, Josh Marks, Grant S. Johnson, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross, Thorsten Schumacher, Niamh Fagan, Gabe Sherman, Lee Broda and James Shani.The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.___
I predict a flop if it ever goes to theaters. Trumpers don't want to see anyone demeaning their god-emperor and normal people are tired of seeing/hearing about him.
>>1286180People thought no one wanted to watch a Dick Cheney movie called "Vice" in 2018 but it ended up being a successful film anyway. Probably something similar will happen with this movie.
>>1286181People weren't going into a tenth year of 24/7 Cheney coverage in 2018.Oversaturation and burnout are a thing. A lot of people voted for Biden in 2020 just because they were sick of hearing the name Trump every single day. People are forced to hear about Trump because he's at the center of American politics. They aren't forced to watch a two hour long movie about him.
>>1286195This movie is going to win bigly and hugely. Many people are saying it.
>>1286195>A lot of people voted for Biden in 2020 just because they were sick of hearing the name Trump every single day.So you're saying corporate media interfered with the election?
>>1286276Sure. Wasn't there a study put out showing he got something like two billion dollars in free media coverage during the 2016 election alone just because they focused on him every day?I'm saying between the pussy hat brigade screeching every time he tweeted or appeared on camera and the red hat brigade screaming and crying any time someone so much as brought up the color orange in a negative light, people were sick of hearing about him by the time November 2020 came around.We got about six months in late 2021 to early 2022 were you could go a full 24 hour day without hearing the name Trump, positive or negative.But now he's back at the forefront of media every goddamn day, because corporate media want those sweet Trump bucks back and are more than happy to subject us to another four years of performative outrage on both sides day in and day out.And people still don't want to hear about him any more than they absolutely have to, much less for two hours in a movie theater.
>>1286176>filmmaker Ali Abbasiso this guy is going to get sued by Trump.
>>1286281sued for what? are you assuming it's a negative portrayal?
>>1286290Unless it portrays Trump as an actual deity, he and his disciples will whine and squeal about it being woke and unfair.
>>1286291Bend the knee and you might be spared
>>1286176Like I'm going to waste my time with this piece of shitt? OKLOSER
>>1286305Bend your dick in half til it breaks and you might need to take your meds.
>>1286203>This movie is going to win bigly and hugely. Many people are saying it.This.tRump don't care so much about how they portray him, as long as they get his name right... 'tRump'.Who's going to portray Epstein and the Clintons?Or was that the 90s?
