Interviews With "The Trial Of The Chicago 7" Director/Writer, Aaron Sorkin & Actor, Frank Langella

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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"The Trial Of The Chicago 7" is one of the best films of 2020 and one of its most timely as well. Writer/Director Aaron Sorkin ("Molly's Game" & "The Social Network") could have never predicted just how timely the movie would be when it premiered on Netflix this past September. Not only was he kind enough to spend some time talking to me about the making of his second directorial achievement but one of the stars from the acclaimed ensemble cast, Academy Award -nominated actor, Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon"), spoke with Dan Bayer about his involvement in the picture as well. Take a listen to both of them down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the writer and director for The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin, and Dan Baer's interview with one of the actors from the acclaimed ensemble, Academy Award nominated actor, Frank La Angelou.
0:16.8	You know why you're on trial here?
0:21.0	The whole world is watching.
0:24.6	You all right?
0:28.9	All right, everybody.
0:31.3	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast.
0:33.5	I'm your host, Matt Neglia.
0:35.3	And joining me today is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter for films that I'm sure you have heard of,
0:41.5	including The Social Network, A Few Good Men, Steve Jobs, Moneyball.
0:45.9	He has directed Molly's game, and now he is directing The Trial of the Chicago 7.
0:51.3	Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Aaron Sorkin.
0:56.0	Hello, how are you? I'm great,
1:00.6	Aaron. I'm really, really great. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here with me today to talk about your latest film. My pleasure. Absolutely. So you wrote this script in 2007. There
1:07.7	have been numerous directors attached to this, Paul Greengrass, Steven Spielberg,
1:12.8	and you finally decided that it was time for you to be the one to direct this film. And it's kind of
1:21.0	amazing the overall timing of the release in terms of what is going on in the world politically, socially,
1:29.8	today. Can you talk about your decision to ultimately direct this film following Molly's game
1:35.8	and just maybe a little bit of like reflection on everything that has just happened,
1:40.5	especially over the last year? Sure. Well, let me start here. I started writing
1:46.8	the screenplay in 2006. I finished writing the screenplay about a year ago. Wow. I did 20, 30 drafts.
1:56.5	I just kept writing it and kept writing it. Screenplays are never really finished.
2:02.2	They're confiscated.
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