‘The Apprentice’: First Look At Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump & Jeremy Strong As Roy Cohn In Cannes Competition Film

Immediately off the back of its inclusion in the Cannes Film Festival Competition lineup Thursday, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice has dropped a first look of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.

Billed as an exploration of power and ambition, set in a world of corruption and deceit, The Apprentice will examine Trump’s efforts to build his real estate business in New York in the ’70s and ’80s, also digging into his relationship with infamous attorney Cohn. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of a major American dynasty. Filled with larger-than-life characters, it will reveal the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.

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Maria Bakalova is starring as Ivana Trump and Martin Donovan is Fred Trump in the movie from Iranian-Danish director Abbasi, who most recently had Holy Spider in Cannes competition.

In the past hour, Abbasi’s movie has been revealed as part of the Cannes selection alongside the likes of Francis Coppola’s Megalopolis, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Andrea Arnold’s Bird.

Gabriel Sherman is screenwriter. Producers are Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films (Canada), Jacob Jarek for Profile Pictures (Denmark), Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde for Tailored Films (Ireland), alongside Abbasi and Louis Tisne for Film Institute (Denmark). EPs are Amy Baer, Mark H. Rapaport, Emanuel Nunez, Josh Marks, Grant S. Johnson, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross, Thorsten Schumacher, Niamh Fagan, Gabe Sherman, Lee Broda, James Shani and Greg Denny.

International sales are being handled by Rocket Science with CAA and WME on domestic sales in Cannes.

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