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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one you probably didn’t see coming: Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee known for his work in the MCU and the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, has been tapped for the role of a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a new film from Cannes prize-winning Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), according to multiple sources.
Following Trump from his twenties through his late thirties, The Apprentice will examine his efforts to build his real estate business in New York over the course of the ’70s and ’80s, also digging into his relationship with infamous attorney Roy Cohn.
News of the project comes as the former POTUS stands trial in New York for fraud. Although currently under multiple indictments in multiple cases, the twice impeached Trump’s eyeing a return to the Oval Office as the current Republican frontrunner for 2024.
The writer for The Apprentice project is Gabriel Sherman, whose book The Loudest Voice in the Room and associated New York Magazine articles inspired Showtime’s limited series The Loudest Voice, starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes. Amy Baer (Purple Hearts, Jerry and Marge Go Large) is producing the indie for Gidden Media.
One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Stan has already memorably portrayed many a real-life figure — most recently stepping in to the role of Robinhood Markets CEO Vladimir Tenev in Dumb Money, Craig Gillespie’s pic on the GameStop short squeeze of 2021, which was released by Sony in September after premiering at TIFF. He previously drew rave reviews for his turns as Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee opposite Lily James’ Pam Anderson on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, and broke out with his turn as Jeff Gilooly, the abusive spouse of elite figure skater Tonya Harding, in the Gillespie-helmed I, Tonya.
Otherwise best known for his work as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in projects ranging from Captain America: The First Avenger to the forthcoming Thunderbolts, Stan’s other recent credits include Apple’s thriller Sharper with Julianne Moore and Mimi Cave’s horror-thriller Fresh with Daisy Edgar-Jones. Also coming up for him is the A24 thriller A Different Man, which he exec produced and stars in opposite The Worst Person in the World‘s Reinate Reinsve.
Directing two episodes for the first season of HBO’s smash hit video game adaptation The Last Of Us, Abbasi’s most recent feature, Holy Spider, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where star Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the award for Best Actress. The serial killer thriller went on to be selected as the official Danish entry for the Best International Feature Oscar and was shortlisted, though not ultimately nominated. Other past features from the filmmaker include the Oscar-nominated troll fantasy Border and the Berlin horror pic Shelley.
A New York Times bestselling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair, Sherman has also written and served as a consulting producer on the ABC crime drama Alaska Daily.
Stan is repped by CAA, Brookside Artist Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Abbasi by CAA, LARK in the UK, and Entertainment 360; and Sherman by Entertainment 360.
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