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Synopsis: Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and is based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production: Bleecker Street Media
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 41 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
2015
124 min
Website
2,155 Views


Actual black & white documentary footage of a waving WINSTON

CHURCHILL, grimly addressing an assembly:

WINSTON CHURCHILL (ON SCREEN)

Nobody knows what Soviet Russia

intends to do. An Iron Curtain has

descended across the continent.

The newsreel CUTS TO a cartoon map of Europe and Asia as an

animated red Iron Curtain drops, enclosing Soviet Russia.

NEWSREEL NARRATOR

The front line in a new kind of

war. A Cold War!

SHOTS of Russian military might: ARMIES march, FIGHTERS

launch, TANKS roll.

NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)

The enemy --Communists!

BACK TO the cartoon map as the Iron Curtain BECOMES a series

of red tentacles --

NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)

Their goal -- world domination!

(CONTINUED)

TRUMBO - JOHN MCNAMARA 8.

CONTINUED:

-- and those tentacles slither across Europe and Asia,

heading for the United States.

REVERSE TO REVEAL - THE MOVIE AUDIENCE

MEN in ties, WOMEN in dresses, KIDS in their Sunday best.

And among them WE FIND Dalton Trumbo with his family:

daughter NIKI, 8, son CHRIS, 6, Cleo, and in her lap, their

youngest, MITZI, 2, all munching and sipping movie treats,

watching -

THE NEWSREEL:

As it CUTS TO A SHOT OF the Hollywood sign -

NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)

Dateline:
Hollywood. The offices

of former film starlet, now top

columnist, Hedda Hopper.

-- then DISSOLVES TO A SHOT of a newspaper column under the

aerodynamically lettered byline, HEDDA HOPPER’S HOLLYWOOD.

Next to the text, Hedda Hopper. As she begins to speak from

inside her column:

HEDDA HOPPER (ON SCREEN)

(to camera)

Greetings from our film capital,

where all is sun and fun. Or is

it?

CUT TO A WIDE SHOT (ARCHIVAL) -- OF WELL-KNOWN MOVIE FOLK.

Grouped together a bit awkwardly in bright midday sun:

HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)

See the famous faces here? Danny

Kaye, Humphrey Bogart, his dishy

bride, Lauren Bacall, their good

friend, film director John Huston,

and many others...

CLOSE-UPS (ARCHIVAL) of these FAMOUS FACES, plus a few LESS

WELL-KNOWN.

HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)

...all of whom have declared

solidarity with film crews

picketing for higher wages. In

walk-outs that quickly turned

violent.

(CONTINUED)

TRUMBO - JOHN MCNAMARA 9.

CONTINUED:
(2)

NEW SHOTS (ARCHIVAL) - OF PEACEFUL STRIKES OUTSIDE FILM

STUDIOS that indeed turn violent: POLICE CLUB THE STRIKERS,

ATTACK DOGS MAUL, FIRE HOSES SPRAY -

HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)

Because these strikes were in fact

the work of dangerous radicals.

A NEW CLOSE-UP (TO BE SHOT) -- SOMEONE standing on an apple

box, addressing a peaceful line of studio PICKETERS:

It’s Dalton Trumbo, his black & white face 40 feet high:

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John McNamara

John McNamara is a writer, producer, show-runner and television creator. He wrote and co-produced the feature film "Trumbo," for which Bryan Cranston was nominated for an Oscar, as Dalton Trumbo, one of The Hollywood Ten blacklisted screenwriters. The film was nominated by the WGA for Best Adapted Screenplay and McNamara was awarded the WGAW's .. more…

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