Guess last year’s biopic wasn’t enough? Apparently a big-budget biopic of Donald Trump is being shopped to potential investors at Cannes. The premise? Something “kinder” than 2024’s The Apprentice. Here’s the trailer for that in case you missed it.
Andrea Iervolino (producer of Ferrari and To The Bone) is hoping for a $100 million budget to create a new biopic for Trump. Not sure if Trump has given the green light to the project, but you gotta think he’s involved, somehow.
The production company promised “a major new biographical film centred on the life and legacy of Donald J. Trump, real estate mogul, television icon, and 45th and 47th President of the United States”.
Iervolino said, “Whether one agrees or disagrees with his politics, there’s no denying Donald Trump’s impact on the modern era. As a producer, I’m interested in exploring the deeper story of the man, the rise, the challenges, the resilience. Our goal is to deliver a film that is bold, balanced, and artistically ambitious”.
As you know, Trump is in the first year of his second term in office, having served as U.S. president from 2017-2021.
The Apprentice was well-received and earned Oscar nominations, but Trump wasn’t a fan (and sent cease-and-desist letter to the filmmakers). Here’s what Trump wrote about the movie on Truth Social, “A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, ‘The Apprentice’ (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully ‘bomb’”.
“It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’”
Trump added, “So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us. MAGA2024!”
If they’re making a ‘kinder’ Trump biopic, how accurate could it really be and what should they call it??
