‘The Apprentice’ Director Ali Abbasi On Legal Threats From Donald Trump: “They Don’t Talk About His Success Rate”; Filmmaker Hopes For September Release Timed To Debates- Cannes

The Apprentice filmmaker Ali Abbasi, while not commenting on who his distributor is, said Sept. 15 would be a nice release date for the Donald J. Trump movie timed to the second Presidential Debate. His remarks came at the Cannes Press Conference.

“We have this promotional event, the U.S. election with us and he movie, so we’re hoping to very much to come out,” said Abbasi.

Following the movie’s world premiere where it received an 11-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere, Trump campaign’s Steven Cheung declared, “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”

The movie follows the rise of a young 1980s Donald J. Trump, played by Marvel Studios movie icon Sebastian Stan, as a real estate baron and how he became inspired to wheel and deal from ruthless attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).

“This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” added Cheung of the Competition film. “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.”

The movie contains a rape scene in which Trump forces himself on to his then wife, Ivana Trump played by Bakalova. The first former Mrs. Trump, who died in 2022, had spoken of the sexual assault in the years following the couple’s divorce but later recanted the incident in the decades before her death.

Trump is besieged with myriad indictments and an ongoing hush-money trial in NYC.