The first trailer for 'The Apprentice' starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump is here. The biopic sees Jeremy Strong play Trump's mentor, attorney Roy Cohn. In the trailer...Strong's Cohn shares his rules for victory. The film's description reads, "A young Donald Trump eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today."
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00:00What if you lost your fortune today?
00:02Well then maybe I'll run for president, I don't know.
00:04The first trailer for the film The Apprentice,
00:06starring Sebastian Stan as young Donald Trump, is here.
00:12The biopic sees Jeremy Strong play Trump's mentor, attorney Roy Cohn.
00:16Roy Cohn, nice to meet you.
00:17The Roy Cohn, you're brutal.
00:19Guilty as charged.
00:21In the trailer, Strong's Cohn shares his rules for victory.
00:24I didn't always win.
00:25His rules.
00:27The first rule is attack, attack, attack.
00:30The film's description reads,
00:31quote, a young Donald Trump eager to make his name
00:34as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York,
00:37comes under the spell of Roy Cohn,
00:39the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today.
00:43Rule two, admit nothing, deny everything.
00:48Cohn sees Trump as the perfect protege,
00:50someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success,
00:53and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
00:55Rule three, no matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.
01:02You have to be willing to do anything to anyone to win.
01:05The movie was acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment
01:08several months after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:10The news came on the heels of months of tension between the movie and the Trump campaign,
01:14the latter of which issued legal threats against potential distributors.
01:18The Apprentice is set for a pre-election release on October 11th.
01:22For more on this story and to watch the full trailer,
01:24head to THR.com.
01:26This is The Hollywood Reporter News.