Tony Sokol Oct 28, 2018
Aaron Sorkin will walk and talk with the Chicago 7 defendants in upcoming drama.
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton, was one of eight people charged with violating the Rap Brown law for the Vietnam War protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Seale called Judge Julius Hoffman a racist for denying his request for a separate trial. The judge responded by having Seale bound and gagged in court before separating his trial and sentencing him to 48 months in prison. The remaining defendants became known as the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin is set to direct the upcoming political drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Sacha Baron Cohen is in the running to star, according to Deadline.
Sorkin, best known for the television series The West Wing and HBO's Newsroom, wrote the screenplay more than 10 years ago, with an eye...
Aaron Sorkin will walk and talk with the Chicago 7 defendants in upcoming drama.
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton, was one of eight people charged with violating the Rap Brown law for the Vietnam War protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Seale called Judge Julius Hoffman a racist for denying his request for a separate trial. The judge responded by having Seale bound and gagged in court before separating his trial and sentencing him to 48 months in prison. The remaining defendants became known as the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin is set to direct the upcoming political drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Sacha Baron Cohen is in the running to star, according to Deadline.
Sorkin, best known for the television series The West Wing and HBO's Newsroom, wrote the screenplay more than 10 years ago, with an eye...
- 10/28/2018
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