1 | * AbilityOverAppearance: Both Creator/SachaBaronCohen and Creator/FrankLangella are very tall, in contrast to the real life men they play. Their performances were highly praised however, so few actually cared about this. |
2 | * AllStarCast: Creator/SachaBaronCohen, Creator/EddieRedmayne, Creator/MarkRylance, Creator/FrankLangella, Creator/JeremyStrong, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/YahyaAbdulMateenII, and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch. |
3 | * DawsonCasting: |
4 | ** Abbie Hoffman was 31 and 32 during the trial; Creator/SachaBaronCohen was 48 during filming. |
5 | ** Creator/MarkRylance was 59 playing the 49-year-old William Kunstler. |
6 | ** Creator/MichaelKeaton, at 68, is roughly 27 years older than the real Ramsay Clark was at the time. |
7 | ** Leonard Weinglass was 35 when the trial began; Creator/BenShenkman was 51 during filming. |
8 | ** Jeremy Strong was 40 during filming, playing the 30-year-old Jerry Rubin. |
9 | ** John N. Mitchell was 55 when the trial began; John Doman was 74 during filming. |
10 | * DuelingWorks: ''Trial'' was released less than five months before ''Film/JudasAndTheBlackMessiah'', another film featuring leftist protests in late 1960s Chicago that features Fred Hampton as a prominent supporting character [[spoiler:and features his murder by police as a plot point]]. (Seale and the trial are briefly mentioned in ''Judas''.) Both films were nominated for Best Picture. |
11 | * FakeAmerican: Creator/SachaBaronCohen, Creator/EddieRedmayne, Creator/MarkRylance and Alex Sharp (all British) play Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, William Kunstler, and Rennie Davis respectively. |
12 | * PlayingWithCharacterType: Once again Creator/SachaBaronCohen plays a loudmouthed, comical trickster, but unlike his other performances, here he’s placed in an incredibly serious situation. And while most of his other characters are straightforward [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]], Abbie Hoffman is ultimately shown to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. |
13 | * ProductionPosse: |
14 | ** Caitlin Fitzgerald and Jeremy Strong are also in ''Series/{{Succession}}'' together. |
15 | ** Composer Music/DanielPemberton and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael had previously worked on Sorkin's directorial debut, ''Film/MollysGame'' (which co-starred Strong). |
16 | * SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was originally meant to be made in 2007, but was shelved due to the Writer's Strike. |
17 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
18 | ** When the script was first written in 2007, Creator/StevenSpielberg was going to direct. |
19 | ** After Spielberg dropped out, Creator/PaulGreengrass and Creator/BenStiller were among the directors approached to take over before Creator/AaronSorkin decided to direct the movie himself. |
20 | ** When Spielberg was developing the film, he wanted Creator/WillSmith to play Bobby Seale, Creator/HeathLedger to play Tom Hayden and Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman to play William Kunstler. The cast would have also consisted of Creator/AdamArkin, Creator/TayeDiggs and Creator/KevinSpacey. |
21 | ** Creator/SethRogen was set to play Jerry Rubin until Jeremy Strong replaced Rogen. Jonathan Majors was set to play Bobby Seale until Creator/YahyaAbdulMateenII replaced Majors. Creator/WilliamHurt was announced to play John Mitchell before John Doman replaced him. |
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