Donald Trump origin story 'The Apprentice ' gets pre-election release, full awards campaign planned
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and Maria Bakalova, has been acquired by @BriarcliffEnt. 💼
The film will be released in theaters on October 11. pic.twitter.com/sYKeyrfcKB
- Letterboxd (@letterboxd) August 30, 2024
Sebastian Stan's thirst quest for awards recognition just caught a break as his Donald Trump biopic 'The Apprentice', directed by Ali Abbasi, has finally been acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment.
The film will have a pre-election release and full awards campaign.
The Trump 'origin story' stars Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as his onetime consigliere Roy Cohn and will be released Oct. 11. It will make the rounds on the fall festival circuit prior to release.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and has had trouble finding a domestic distributor. Dan Snyder, the pro-Trump billionaire whose Kinematics company put up equity for the film, was unhappy with the film's portrayal of Trump and threatened to block distribution while Trump himself has threatened legal action.
The film found international distribution but was struggling to land domestic. That’s despite, as Abbasi calls it, this fall’s “promotional event, the U.S. election,” that would seem to provide an ideal launchpad, and plenty of free publicity, for any domestic distributor.
Eventually Kinematics was bought out by one of the other producers.
'The Apprentice ' reportedly includes scenes of Trump abusing amphetamines, getting liposuction and scalp-reduction surgery and, most controversially, one graphic sequence showing him raping his first wife, Ivana.
The film has a 77% on Rotten Tomatoes.
ONTD, will you be seeing the Trump origin movie?
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