Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jonathan Majors and Alex Sharp have joined the cast of Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” it was announced on Friday.
The project was put on hold back in December, but it’s now heading to the European Film Market, with the previously announced stars Eddie Redmayne and Sacha Baron Cohen still attached. Further, Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the screenplay, is still attached to direct. He previously said he was “evaluating his schedule and commitments” around the time his Broadway play of “To Kill a Mockingbird” was opening.
Based on Sorkin’s screenplay, the film is based on the infamous 1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more after they were arrested during the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.