Michael Keaton and William Hurt Join Aaron Sorkin's THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Michael Keaton and William Hurt are the latest actors to join the ensemble cast of Aaron Sorkin’s film project The Trial of the Chicago 7. Sorkin is directing the film, Steven Spielberg is producing, and the rest of the impressive cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The film recounts “the infamous 1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The trial transfixed the nation and sparked a conversation about mayhem intended to undermine the U.S. government.”
Keaton will play Ramsey Clark, who was the judge that oversaw the trial, and Hurt will play John Mitchell, the attorney general at the time. Redmayne will take on the role of Tom Hayden, Baron Cohen will play Abbie Hoffman, Rogen will play Jerry Rubin, Gordon-Levitt will play Richard Schultz, Majors will play Bobby Seale, and Sharp as Rennie Davis.
The movie is set to get a limited release on September 25th, 2020, and will then expand into more theaters on Oct. 2, 2020.
Source: Variety