Following it’s recent screening at the 51st Telluride Film Festival, Briarcliff Entertainment unveiled the official trailer for Ali Abbasi’s (Holy Spider, The Last of Us) biographical film on the controversial US president Donald Trump, ‘The Apprentice‘. The film follows Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) in his early business career including his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn and his first wife Ivana.
The film starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Ben Sullivan, Charlie Carrick, Mark Rendall, and Joe Pingue, had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Release Date
Directed by Ali Abbasi, ‘The Apprentice’ opens in US theaters on October 11, 2024.
Synopsis
A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé — someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
Writer Gabriel Sherman talked to Hollywood Reporter on what he think Trump’s reaction would be seeing the movie, “I think privately, there’s a lot for him to like in this movie. It does speak to a time in his life when he was actually building real things. I think publicly, it serves his political interests to pick fights with anyone, and we might be those people. But audiences should see through that. If he attacks the movie, it’s only because he thinks he’s going to score political points.”
Reviews
Matt Neglia in a Next Best Picture review gave the film a 7/10 score, praising the performances, “Although it might not be perfect, and some will rightfully question whether the timing of it is justified, Stan and Strong provide awards-worthy work that will get people talking and hopefully convince them to see Trump for who he is and has always been.”
David Rooney in a Hollywood Reporter review also praised Stan’s performance as Trump, writing, “Some will argue that Stan’s performance in the central role is a touch too likeable, but the actor does an excellent job, going beyond impersonation to capture the essence of the man”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for ‘The Apprentice.’