Netflix has closed a deal with Cross Creek for worldwide distribution rights to Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin’s new drama film “The Trial of the Chicago 7”.
In a deal reportedly worth more than $50 million, the project hasn’t announced a release date but it is expected to debut sometime before November so as to be in awards contention.
Based on a true story, the film 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.
Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alex Sharp, Michael Keaton, William Hurt, Thomas Middleditch, John Carroll Lynch, Daniel Flaherty, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, J.C. MacKenzie and Max Adler co-star.
Source: Deadline
