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‘The Apprentice’ Director Offers to Screen Movie for Donald Trump After Campaign Threatens Lawsuit: ‘I Don’t Necessarily Think It’s a Movie He Would Dislike’


"The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign's threat to sue over the movie.

“ The Apprentice ” director Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over the movie, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday night. Stan embodies the real estate tycoon turned president in Ali Abbasi’s film, alongside Jeremy Strong as his lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” the Trump campaign’s chief spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement to Variety.

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