The trailer for THE APPRENTICE, Ali Abbasi’s controversial film about a young Donald Trump has been launched, on the day of the US presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris.
THE APPRENTICE had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Since then, the film and filmmakers have been the focus of legal threats from the Trump campaign, in an attempt to stop the film from being released in cinemas.
Despite the efforts of the Trump campaign, THE APPRENTICE will be released in cinemas in Australia on 10th October, and in the USA on 11th October. In an interview this week with Deadline, producer Dan Bekerman stated “… having Donald Trump’s campaign threaten us directly after our screening, not only threaten us, but threaten any distributor who dared to try to release the movie, that created a very unique circumstance for everyone involved, and we certainly have had our struggles with that. But we’ve really believed in the integrity of the movie on every level: as a work of art, as a responsible movie”.
THE APPRENTICE is directed by Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider) and stars Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong (Succession) as Roy Cohn. The film charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn and is described by the BBC as “a shrewd and darkly amusing tragicomedy that dramatises Donald Trump’s rise to fame and fortune in the 1970s and 80s.”
IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 10, 2024
