The Apprentice trailer has landed. Yes, this is Ali Abbasi’s searing exploration of Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong and it comes to cinemas in both the UK and the US in October, albeit on different dates.
The Apprentice trailer
The Apprentice was premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival back in May (where I actually caught it) and was snapped up from STUDIOCANAL for the UK from where the new trailer originates from.
The official synopsis is as follows.
THE APPRENTICE is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, The Apprentice stars Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong (Succession) as the firebrand Roy Cohn, Martin Donovan (Tenet) as Fred Trump Sr, and Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) as Ivana Trump.
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A slightly more detailed synopsis comes from the film’s stateside distributors.
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.
Stan is great in this movie and will hopefully get some awards attention, as too is Maria Bakalova who deserves the same.
Release wise, the film will land in UK cinemas on 18th October with US audiences getting the film a week earlier on 11th October.
Watch The Apprentice trailer below.
