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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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