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EXCLUSIVE: Following a strong response from buyers, Aaron Sorkin’s starry drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is now being fast-tracked for an early summer start after pre-production was put on pause last December. Rocket Science was selling the $30M-budgeted drama at the EFM in Berlin last week and closed significant…

EXCLUSIVE: After pre-production was put on pause in December, we can reveal that Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is now heading to market with an all-star cast including Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jonathan Majors and Alex Sharp. Rocket Science has boarded…

Aaron Sorkin’s Trial Of Chicago 7 is not moving forward with its February 2019 production start. There are reports that it was due to budgetary concerns, but Amblin says it’s more about scheduling with Sorkin focusing on To Kill a Mockingbird which opens on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre tomorrow night. The studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off excellent reviews in Studio 8/Sony’s White Boy Rick, Jonathan Majors is in talks to portray Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, in Aaron Sorkin’s Amblin Entertainment feature The Trial of the Chicago 7.  Sorkin’s Chicago 7, which the Oscar winner is writing and directing…

Aaron Sorkin is attached to direct and Sacha Baron Cohen is in early talks to star in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a long-in-the-works feature film from Amblin Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is based on the 1969 federal conspiracy trial stemming from the cops-vs-protesters riots at the 1968 Democratic…