Thomas Middleditch and Max Adler Join Aaron Sorkin‘s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
The impressive cast of Aaron Sorkin‘s historical drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 just got a little bit bigger with the addition of Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch and Glee alum Max Adler.
Sorkin is directing the Steven Spielberg produced film and the two actors join the already cast Michael Keaton, William Hurt, 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. There’s no word on who Middleditch and Adler are playing.
The movie is set to get a limited release on September 25th, 2020, and will then expand into more theaters on Oct. 2, 2020.