Defining Trump in Film
The One Scene in the Movie — The Apprentice — That Has Trump and His Team Worried The Most
“Spot on!” say reviewers — “It has to be stopped!” says Trump
On Tuesday, June 25, the Washington Post reported that there is an ongoing battle in the United States over the release of The Apprentice, a movie about Donald Trump. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, and staring Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as his mentor lawyer Roy Cohn, traces the formative years of the former president. Maria Bakalova plays his ex-wife Ivana Trump.
The film made a big splash in Cannes where offshore territories were acquired quickly and a release is expected to happen this Fall. Viewers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and in Canada, among other countries, will have access to it.
Lawyers for the former president have already sent a cease and desist letter to the producers to stop The Apprentice from being shown to any US audience. Reports are that Trump could formally sue, but that probably wouldn’t get far because Trump’s life is well documented, including the rape of estranged wife Ivana that she herself once disclosed, though she later retracted it.
