Director Paul Greengrass Nearing Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7

Paul Greengrass (Director)== UNIVERSAL PICTURES with THE CINEMA SOCIETY & BROOKS BROTHERS host the after party for “GREEN ZONE�== Nobu 57, NYC== February 25, 2010== © Patrick McMullan== Photo - BILLY FARRELL/PatrickMcMullan.com== ==

Aaron Sorkin has had a script, The Trial of the Chicago 7, kicking around at DreamWorks for half a decade. Now Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy, Captain Phillips) is nearing a deal to direct the story about a 1969 trial “arising out of the protesters vs. police violent rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that transfixed the nation because of its counter-culture and leftist mayhem intended to undermine the U.S. government.� Juicy roles shall abound.