The day after the Cannes Movie Competition premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the previous president hit again on the film, calling it “malicious defamation” and threatening authorized motion.
“This rubbish is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies which were lengthy debunked,” stated Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump marketing campaign.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by the creator Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Trump (Sebastian Stan) as an bold younger man looking for to determine himself as an actual property magnate. He finds a mentor within the wily lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Robust) and a primary spouse within the trend mannequin Ivana Zelnickova (Maria Bakalova), although Trump is keen to discard each as soon as they’re not of use to him.
The movie is hardly a flattering portrait of the previous president, and contains scenes the place the enterprise mogul goes below the knife for liposuction and a scalp process to repair his bald spot. In its most controversial sequence, the Trump character sexually assaults his spouse after she criticizes his appears to be like. (Ivana, who died in 2022, accused Trump of rape in her divorce deposition, although she disavowed the declare later.)
Cheung stated the Trump crew plans to file a lawsuit “to handle the blatantly false assertions from these fake filmmakers.”
Although the risk might have an effect on the discharge of “The Apprentice,” which presently has no distributor, Abbasi sounded unfazed on the movie’s information convention on Tuesday.
“Everyone talks about him suing lots of people,” the director stated. “They don’t discuss his success fee, although.”
