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EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s one you most likely didn’t see coming: Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee recognized for his work within the MCU and the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, has been tapped for the function of a younger Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a brand new movie from Cannes prize-winning Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), based on a number of sources.
The Apprentice will study Trump’s efforts to construct his actual property enterprise in New York within the ’70s and ’80s, additionally digging into his relationship with notorious legal professional Roy Cohn. Starring alongside him as Cohn is Jeremy Sturdy. Additionally aboard is Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova.
Information of the undertaking comes as the previous POTUS stands trial in New York for fraud. Though at the moment below a number of indictments in a number of instances, the twice impeached Trump’s eyeing a return to the Oval Workplace as the present Republican frontrunner for 2024.
Gabriel Sherman wrote the script. Pic is a co-production between Daniel Beckerman of Scythia Movies, Jacob Jerek of Profile Photos and Ruth Treacy of Taylored Movies. Exec producers are Grant Johnson, Gabriel Sherman and Amy Baer.
One of the crucial versatile actors of his technology, Stan has already memorably portrayed many a real-life determine — most just lately stepping in to the function of Robinhood Markets CEO Vladimir Tenev in Dumb Cash, Craig Gillespie’s pic on the GameStop quick squeeze of 2021, which was launched by Sony in September after premiering at TIFF. He beforehand drew rave critiques for his turns as Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee reverse Lily James’ Pam Anderson on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, and broke out along with his flip as Jeff Gilooly, the abusive partner of elite determine skater Tonya Harding, within the Gillespie-helmed I, Tonya.
In any other case finest recognized for his work as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in tasks starting from Captain America: The First Avenger to the forthcoming Thunderbolts, Stan’s different latest credit embody Apple’s thriller Sharper with Julianne Moore and Mimi Cave’s horror-thriller Recent with Daisy Edgar-Jones. Additionally arising for him is the A24 thriller A Completely different Man, which he exec produced and stars in reverse The Worst Particular person within the World‘s Reinate Reinsve.
Directing two episodes for the primary season of HBO’s smash hit online game adaptation The Final Of Us, Abbasi’s most up-to-date function, Holy Spider, premiered on the 2022 Cannes Movie Pageant, the place star Zar Amir Ebrahimi gained the award for Finest Actress. The serial killer thriller went on to be chosen because the official Danish entry for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Oscar and was shortlisted, although not in the end nominated. Different previous options from the filmmaker embody the Oscar-nominated troll fantasy Border and the Berlin horror pic Shelley.
Stan is repped by CAA, Brookside Artist Administration, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern; Abbasi by CAA, LARK within the UK, and Leisure 360; and Sherman by Leisure 360.
