Controversial Trump biopic "The Apprentice" to premiere in October
6:07 AM EDT, September 11, 2024
Donald Trump wanted to block the release. He threatened lawsuits if anyone had a chance to see the movie. "The Apprentice" saw the light of day anyway. Polish audiences will also see it.
"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend film-makers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked. As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked," read a statement from Donald Trump's lawyers.
Although there was a lot of talk about attempts to block the film, we are getting new news about premieres worldwide.
Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn in "The Apprentice"
"The Apprentice" already had its festival premiere, but now we know that the film about the early career of Donald Trump will hit theatres on October 11. Young Trump is played by Sebastian Stan, and his mentor, Roy Cohn, is played by Jeremy Strong, known from "Succession." Director Ali Abbasi shows how the wealthy Cohn "creates" Trump, advising him on how to look, what to do, and how to speak.
The film's subject matter—the creation of Donald Trump as the king of American business—is controversial, but so are certain scenes, including those depicting Donald and Ivana's marriage. One fragment of the film is said to show Trump forcing his wife, Ivana, into intercourse. The issue has been widely known for many years.
In the trailer that debuted online, you can see how Donald met Ivana as a model—scenes from their married life, arguments, and Trump's surgeries flash by.
When Trump divorced his wife in the 90s, she accused him of rape. In Harry Hurt III's book "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump," she confirmed that she felt "violated." Trump's lawyers responded immediately. It was stated that by saying "rape," Ivana did not mean a crime, a literal rape. During the divorce, it was established that Ivana had been "inhumanely treated" by her husband. Ivana had to agree that she could not speak about her marriage to the politician without his consent. She received 14 million dollars, a 45-room mansion, an apartment in Trump Plaza, and could use Mar-a-Lago freely for one month a year.
Ivana categorically denied being raped by her husband after the divorce.
"She made those allegations under oath in a divorce proceeding under the penalty of perjury. She then clarified her statement under pressure from Trump’s lawyers when a book was about to come out. And then in 2015, when he was running for president and she was the mother of his children who could go to the White House, she said, "Oh, this didn’t happen." So if you’re a writer and you’re striving for an emotionally true version of the story, what feels the most true to you?" said the film's screenwriter, Gabriel Sherman.
