The Apprentice is the long-awaited and controversial new film by Ali Abbasi with Sebastian Stan in the role of a young Donald Trump.
BiM Distribuzione has released the poster and the first official clip from The Apprentice – The Origins of Trump, the long-awaited and controversial new film by Ali Abbasi (his first feature film in English) starring Sebastian Stan in the role of a young Donald Trump. Written by Gabriel Sherman and presented in world premiere last May at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (where we reviewed it in preview), the film will be released in Italian theaters on October 17 with the slogan “Everything you always wanted to know about Trump and were afraid to ask”.
New York, 1970s. Determined to step out of his powerful father’s shadow and make a name for himself in Manhattan real estate, budding aspiring tycoon Donald J. Trump meets the man who will become one of the most important figures in his life: fixer Roy Cohn. Seeing potential in Trump, the controversial lawyer—who secured espionage convictions against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and investigated suspected communists alongside Senator McCarthy—teaches his new protégé how to amass wealth and power through deception, intimidation, and media manipulation. The rest is history.
Also starring Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, Martin Donovan as Fred Trump, Ben Sullivan as Russell Eldridge, Charlie Carrick as Fred Trump Jr., Mark Rendall as Daniel Sullivan, and Joe Pingue as Tony Salerno, The Apprentice was produced by Daniel Bekerman, Jacob Jarek, Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, Louis Tisné and Ali Abbasi.