A portrait of Mr. Trump in 1987 - Photo: GETTY IMAGES
The Cannes Film Festival's official website has just announced the list of films that will be screened and participating in Cannes 2024.
Of particular note is the film titled The Apprentice – a biographical film chronicling the journey of billionaire Donald Trump to the pinnacle of his career decades before he became one of America's most notorious tycoons and ascended to the presidency in 2017.
The first image from the film shows Sebastian Stan (right) playing Donald Trump - Photo: IMDb
Donald Trump during his trainee days
Set between the 1970s and 1980s, the film depicts the former president as a "Wall Street wolf," trying to build his fortune through real estate.
According to the producers, the film will delve into the "underworld" of contemporary American politics , with a young Donald Trump attempting to climb the ladder of power through a "deal with the devil" with renowned lawyer and political consultant Roy Cohn.
Actor Sebastian Stan transforms into Donald Trump, even sporting the former president's signature hairstyle and pigtail - Photo: BACKGRID
Playing the young Donald Trump is actor Sebastian Stan, famous to Vietnamese and international audiences for his role as The Winter's Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
At first glance, it's hard to imagine how this handsome actor could possibly play a man with a square face and who looks older than his age, like Mr. Trump.
However, the actor's hairstyle, reminiscent of Trump's "trademark," was captured by a photographer while the film crew was traveling through New York for filming, and indeed, he looked quite similar to the former US president when he was younger.
Maria Bakalova, the first Bulgarian actress to be nominated for an Oscar, will play Ivana Trump, Trump's first wife.
Meanwhile, American actor Martin Donovan was chosen to play Fred Trump Sr., Trump's father.
The film The Apprentice is among the opening films at this year's Cannes Film Festival, alongside Megalopolis , directed by the legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and Kind of Kindness , directed by Yorrgos Lanthimos, who made a splash last year with Poor Things.
Interestingly, the film's title is also the name of the reality TV show The Apprentice, which ran from 2004 until Trump became president.
The aforementioned program is where participants will overcome challenges for a chance to work under billionaire Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and his late wife Ivana Trump, the power couple of New York in the 1980s - Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Donald Trump began his career in the late 1960s as an employee for his father's real estate company, Trump Management.
He renamed it the Trump Organization and became chairman of the company in 1971, shifting the business from residential properties in the boroughs to high-end projects in Manhattan, including the construction of the famous Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue (New York) and other Trump-branded properties in New York, Mumbai, Istanbul, and other locations.
Donald Trump began developing casinos in the 1980s with the opening of Harrah's Casino at Trump Plaza in the Atlantic in 1984, followed by the opening of two more large casinos: Trump Castle and Trump Taj Mahal.
He officially became a billionaire in 1988 and was included in Forbes magazine's list of American billionaires in 1989 with a net worth of $1.5 billion.
Trump's hotel and casino businesses have filed for bankruptcy reorganization four times throughout his career. Trump's business management and licensing operations are currently valued at $59 million.
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