Spielberg May Direct Sorkin's Trial

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21975

Source: Variety
July 12, 2007


DreamWorks has made a deal with Aaron Sorkin to write three films, the first of which will be The Trial of the Chicago 7, a drama that Steven Spielberg hopes to direct.

Variety says the drama focuses on the trials of protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, where clashes between demonstrators and police made it one of the defining events of the 60s.

Spielberg and producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have been developing the film with Sorkin for some time.

The celebrated writer's credits range from the NBC drama "The West Wing" to the stage play "A Few Good Men," which he scripted into a hit movie. Sorkin most recently adapted the George Crile book Charlie Wilson’s War into a Playtone-produced Mike Nichols-directed film that stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

 

[Sava]

great writer, master director ...i'm there

 

[Cinemaman]

Sounds very intersting, but I hope Spielberg will firstly finish Indy 4 and Lincoln, and only then start making such film as this one.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Where does he find time to do these projects

 

[Sava]

lol, yeah, he still has Lincon and Interstellar

 

[Hunter Rider]

Having read the plot i am a bit non plussed

 

[Cinemaman]

Where does he find time to do these projects

Well, isn't he the fastest filmmaker in Hollywood? He made Munich in 5 months as I remember.

 

[Sava]

Well, isn't he the fastest filmmaker in Hollywood? He made Munich in 5 months as I remember.

and WOTW in like 75 days or something

 

[Cinemaman]

and WOTW in like 75 days or something

With only $132m budget!

But one of his secrets is he usually uses only one camera for shooting.

 

[Darkly Dexter]

looks good. Sorkin is a genius.

 

[tzarinna]

3 films, not sure about this.

 

[Erundur]

The celebrated writer's credits range from the NBC drama "The West Wing" to the stage play "A Few Good Men," which he scripted into a hit movie. Sorkin most recently adapted the George Crile book Charlie Wilson’s War into a Playtone-produced Mike Nichols-directed film that stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Man I can't wait for this movie to come out.

 

[turtlefocker]

Micheal Bay is supposed to be the "fastest" filmmaker

 

[Catman]

That sounds like an Oliver Stone movie. lol.

Well, isn't he the fastest filmmaker in Hollywood? He made Munich in 5 months as I remember.

and WOTW in like 75 days or something

Clint Eastwood is the fastest filmmaker. He has been since the `70s.

 

[Cinemaman]

That sounds like an Oliver Stone movie. lol.





Clint Eastwood is the fastest filmmaker. He has been since the `70s.

We are talking about the fastest one in filmmaking. And as we know, Spielberg is the only Hollywood movie director, who shoots huge summer blockbusters in just two months.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Eastwood is known for his "one takes"....hes never shot anything on the scale that Speilberg has though

 

[Catman]

Spielberg is the only Hollywood movie director, who shoots huge summer blockbusters in just two months.

Prinicpal Photography is only one aspect. Once you count pre and post production it takes him a year to make the movie. He has spoken about this in interviews before.

 

[Cinemaman]

Prinicpal Photography is only one aspect. Once you count pre and post production it takes him a year to make the movie. He has spoken about this in interviews before.

Then tell me how did he work on Pre-Production on Munich and at the same time was on the set of WOTW?

Still, Spielberg is the fastest blockbuster filmmaker in Hollywood.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=40474

Sacha Baron Cohen in Spielberg's Chicago 7?
Source: The Sunday Times
December 31, 2007


The Sunday Times is reporting that "Borat" and "Sweeney Todd" star Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast as Abbie Hoffman in the Steven Spielberg-directed The Trial of the Chicago 7. Hoffman is a figure from the 1960s counterculture who used a series of pranks to campaign against the Vietnam war.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war "carnival" that turned nasty. Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames. Curfews only escalated the violence.

After the clashes, independent investigators blamed eight police officers and eight protesters including Hoffman, who had already disrupted the New York Stock Exchange with showers of fake money.

The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot. One was jailed for contempt, leaving the seven to fight the charges.

Hoffman went on to become an irascible celebrity who, later diagnosed with a bipolar disorder, killed himself with pills in 1989.

 

[Catman]

^ That's interesting casting...

 

[Cinemaman]

He's becoming very popular, especially after Borat.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Dammit, put this on the backburner. Interstellar and Lincoln better come first after Indy.

 

[terry78]

Since he's letting Borat and Ali G go, he has to do something.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21718

More For Spielberg's Chicago 7?
Will Smith and Kevin Spacey among others
Source: Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair have been asnoopin'. While on the set of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the US mag's reporter snuck a look at some casting possibilities for Steven Spielberg's upcoming Chicago 7. That kind of thing will usually get you assassinated by a movie studio, but since they spied it, we'll report it.

As reported yesterday, Chicago 7 focuses on the conspiracy trial that followed protests at the 1968 Democratic convention and is already set to star Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman. According to Vanity Fair, a collection of headshots left lying around on the Indy set confirm that Philip Seymour Hoffman is also on board to play William Kunstler, with Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Taye Diggs and Adam Arkin also in consideration for roles.

Is there anybody Spielberg can't get to star in his movies? If he wanted Elvis, a dodo and the Lindbergh baby to play the Three Stooges, they'd probably do it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42271

Spielberg's Chicago 7 Delayed
Source: Deadline Hollywood Daily, EW.Com
February 22, 2008


Less than one week away from the release of Brett Morgen's documentary Chicago 10 and it looks like Steven Spielberg's dramatic feature based on the same story of the protesters accused of starting the riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention, The Trial of the Chicago 7, will be delaying production for the foreseeable future.

The story started earlier today when Collider was reporting that Spielberg dropped out of the project. In fact, Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily and Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider went to their own sources and got the real story, that Aaron Sorkin's script wasn't quite ready and that Spielberg was worried about a potential actors' strike in June to start production in April. The project isn't scrapped and Spielberg will continue developing the script with Sorkin, the creator of "The West Wing" and screenwriter of the recent Charlie Wilson's War, and producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, but they didn't want to hold up the cast or crew from getting work in the spring in case SAG can't work out a new contract with AMPTP and choose to strike.

Nikki Finke's article also debunked the rumors that Will Smith would be playing Black Panther activist Bobby Seale, stating that only Sacha Baron Cohen had been cast as Abbie Hoffman and that the rest of the Chicago defendants would be played by unknowns to keep the costs down.