‘Trumbo’ Trailer: Bryan Cranston Gets Blacklisted From Hollywood
AlthoughBryan Cranston’s been plenty busy over the past few years, he hasn’t actually been seen in a lead role onscreen sinceBreaking Bad. So it’s nice to see him take the spotlight again inTrumbo,Jay Roach’s drama about Hollywood at the height of anti-Communist fervor.
Cranston playsSpartacusandRoman HolidayscreenwriterDalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted from the industry due to his political beliefs.Helen Mirren,Diane Lane,Louis C.K.,Elle Fanning,Michael Stuhlbarg, andJohn Goodmanalso star. Watch theTrumbotrailer after the jump.
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In the ’30s and ’40s Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters, penning such works asThirty Seconds Over TokyoandA Guy Named Joe, and earning an Oscar nomination forKitty Foyle. But his career was derailed in the late ’40s and ’50s when the House of Un-American Activities launched an investigation into the industry, looking to root out Communist sympathizers.
Trumbo actually managed to win two Academy Awards during his blacklisting — one forThe Brave One, which he scripted under a pseudonym, and one forRoman Holiday, for which Ian McLellan Hunter served as a front. The blacklist began to crumble in 1960, when Trumbo was publicly credited for his work onExodusandSpartacus.
Bleecker Street hasTrumboscheduled for release onNovember 6, 2015, following a TIFF premiere next month.
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
