00:00What if you lost your fortune today?
00:02Well, then maybe I'll run for president. I don't know.
00:04The first trailer for the film The Apprentice,
00:06starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, is here.
00:12The biopic sees Jeremy Strong play Trump's mentor, attorney Roy Cohn.
00:16Roy Cohn, nice to meet you.
00:17The Roy Cohn, you're brutal.
00:19Guilty as charged.
00:21In the trailer, Strong's Cohn shares his rules for victory.
00:24How do you always win?
00:25His rules.
00:27The first rule is attack, attack, attack.
00:30The film's description reads, quote,
00:32A young Donald Trump eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York
00:37comes under the spell of Roy Cohn,
00:39the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today.
00:43Rule two, admit nothing, deny everything.
00:47Cohn sees Trump as the perfect protege,
00:50someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success,
00:53and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
00:55Rule three, no matter what happens,
00:57you claim victory and never admit defeat.
01:02You have to be willing to do anything to anyone to win.
01:05The movie was acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment several months after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:11The news came on the heels of months of tension between the movie and the Trump campaign,
01:15the latter of which issued legal threats against potential distributors.
01:18The Apprentice is set for a pre-election release on October 11th.
01:22For more on this story and to watch the full trailer, head to THR.com.
01:26This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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