Talk about campaign season. The Trump movie will make it to U.S. theaters before the presidential election ā¦ and in time to push for awards consideration. For a while, Ali Abbasiās The Apprentice seemed like a potential tough sell, perhaps because Donald Trumpās team threatened to file a lawsuit over the film. The movie reportedly includes a scene in which Trump rapes his wife Ivana, which he has denied doing (Ivana made the claim in a 1990Ā divorce deposition but later said she had felt āviolatedā and hadnāt meant the word rape literally). Despite legal concerns, possible billionaire beef, and a scathing review from Trumpās team, The Apprentice has managed to release a trailer to prove it.
What happens in The Apprentice trailer?
Thatās Jeremy Strong and the sound of violins, but this isnāt Succession.Ā As Roy Cohn, heās the daddy now. Sebastian Stanās Donald J. Trump puckers up to do whatever it takes to get into Cohnās circle of illicit affairs and business deals. āMaybe Iāll run for president, I donāt know,ā he tells a ā90s interviewer, just after a scene in which he stuffs his face with craft-service cheese balls. Yeah, your Trump-loving uncle is going to hate this one.
When is The Apprentice releasing?
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Briarcliff Entertainment will theatrically release The Apprentice in the U.S. on October 11, after the movie plays at some fall film festivals. A āfull-onā awards campaign is said to be planned to promote the biopic, which stars Stan as a young Trump opposite Strongās Cohn.
Was there Dan Snyder drama?
Reportedly, yup. Billionaire Dan Snyder, who helped fund ļ»æThe Apprentice as a backer of the production company Kinematics, allegedly wanted to block the filmās theatrical release after its Cannes Film Festival premiere made him realize the former president wasnāt portrayed as positively as he expected.
A source told Vulture that The Apprenticeās executive producer James Shani, whose company, Rich Spirit, was also among the filmās backers, acquired the film from Kinematics and partnered with Briarcliff. Kinematics later confirmed in a September 3 statement to Deadline that it had exited the project due to ācreative differencesā and that Rich Spirit had bought its interest in a deal with undisclosed financial terms.
Can I really purchase Sebastian Stanās toupee on Kickstarter?
For a limited time, yes! The producers have launched a Kickstarter in hopes of crowdfunding enough money to āhelp get the movie out to as many theatres as possible for as long as possible.ā Based on how much you donate, potential rewards include getting your name in the credits, a signed poster ā¦ and, yes, on-set hair props actually worn by Stan. As of publication time, a thousand-plus backers have already pledged more than $82,000 total. Three hairpieces ā described as āYoung Donnie,ā āPower Donald,ā and āLast Stage Donā āĀ are still listed as available for $3,500 apiece.
What has Trumpās team said?
Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung claimed in an August 30 statement to the Associated Press that The Apprenticeās upcoming October release is akin to āelection interference by Hollywood elites right before November.ā Cheung described the film as āpure malicious defamationā that ādoesnāt even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie storeā and instead ābelongs in a dumpster fire.ā Granted, sometimes thatās exactly the kind of movie the internet latches onto, but weāll see.