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\u00a9\u00a0APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. \/ PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS \/ TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023<\/p>\r\n

Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against Ali Ablassi<\/a>\u2019s film The Apprentice<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which debuted at Cannes this week to an 11-minute standing ovation.

Complaining about \u201cblatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,\u201d campaign spokesperon Steven Cheung denounced the film, which traced ex-president Trump\u2019s rise as a real-estate mogul with the help of the late Roy Cohn.

Cheung added that \u201cThis garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes 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.\u201d

In his condemnation, Cheung declared that \u201cThis \u2018film\u2019 is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day and doesn\u2019t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store. It belongs in a dumpster fire.”<\/p>\r\n

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In The Apprentice<\/strong><\/em>, Sebastian Stan<\/em><\/a> plays the part of the thirtysomething Donald Trump, while Jeremy Strong<\/a> plays Cohn, who was counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during his anti-Communist crusade in the 1950s.

The film also contains a controversial scene in which Trump is portrayed raping his then-wife Ivana, played by Maria Bakalova<\/a>. Ivana, who died in 2022, accused Trump of the assault when she filed for divorce in 1990, but later said it was not meant to be taken literally–only as a description of how she felt violated.

At a press conference in Cannes, Abbasi pointed out that Trump typically threatens lawsuits but does not always follow through on them: \u201cEverybody talks about him suing a lot of people \u2014 they don\u2019t talk about his success rate though, you know?\u201d

Abbasi also proposed screening the film for Trump and discussing its message in person. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike,\u201d said the director. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily think he would like it. I think he would be surprised, you know? And like I\u2019ve said before, I would offer to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards, if that\u2019s interesting to anyone at the Trump campaign.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

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After the screening at Cannes, Abbasi told his audience that \u201cthere is no nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism.\u201d He added that \u201cThe good people have been quiet for too long. So I think it\u2019s time to make movies relevant. It\u2019s time to make movies political again.\u201d

\u201cIn the time of turmoil, there\u2019s this tendency to look inwards, to bury your head deep in the sand, look inside and hope for the best \u2014 hope for the best, hope for the storm to get away,\u201d Abbasi declared. \u201cBut the storm is not going to get away. The storm is coming. The worst times are coming.\u201d

Since The Apprentice<\/strong><\/em> does not yet have a distributor, it\u2019s unclear when the film might be released in the United States.<\/p>\r\n

Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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