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News "Trumbo" Film, with Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Roger Bart, Opens Today (Video) "Trumbo," the new film about the blacklisted screenwriter and playwright Dalton Trumbo, opens Nov. 6 across North America featuring a cast filled with Broadway actors.

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(, Breaking Bad) stars as Trumbo with as , as Trumbo鈥檚 wife, as , and . Also featured: Dean O'Gorman as , David James Elliot as John Wayne, Peter Mackenzie and comedian Louis C.K.

Jay Roach directed the film, which has a screenplay by John McNamara, based on Bruce Cook's 1977 book "Dalton Trumbo," about the real-life Hollywood screenwriter who fought back against anti-Communist hysteria and blacklisting in the 1950s.

The film was produced by Michael London and his Groundswell Productions.

Watch the latest trailer:

 

A play, which is unrelated to the film project, also titled Trumbo, played Off-Broadway in 2003-04. Created by the late screenwriter's son, Christopher Trumbo, the play was culled from the letters of the legendary blacklisted screenwriter. Numerous actors starred in the Off-Broadway production, including , , , , , , , , Michael Richards and .

 
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