“I’ve been asked in the run-up to the film, after the film came out, if the script changed at all to mirror events,” The Trial of the Chicago 7 director-writer tells us today on Crew Call about the pic coinciding with modern day political headlines, “The answer is ‘No’. Events changed to mirror the script.”
While Sorkin, off of an initial assignment from Steven Spielberg, worked on the script for 14 years, what recently fast-tracked the pic into production was as the Oscar-winning The Social Network scribe says “Donald Trump came into our lives. And here’s where things suddenly became relevant. That he would have rallies, and there would be a protestor He would get nostalgic about the old days ‘when we use to carry that guy outta here on a stretcher’ and ‘I’d like to punch him right in the face and beat the crap out of him...
While Sorkin, off of an initial assignment from Steven Spielberg, worked on the script for 14 years, what recently fast-tracked the pic into production was as the Oscar-winning The Social Network scribe says “Donald Trump came into our lives. And here’s where things suddenly became relevant. That he would have rallies, and there would be a protestor He would get nostalgic about the old days ‘when we use to carry that guy outta here on a stretcher’ and ‘I’d like to punch him right in the face and beat the crap out of him...
- 1/27/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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