Bryan Cranston in new film ‘Trumbo’

From the looks of this, Cranston is on fire in the lead role, delivering Trumbo’s lines with the machine-gun patter of someone who knows exactly what they’re doing.

Cranston stars as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, whose political ideals put him in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was found guilty of communism and sentenced to an 11-month stint in prison.

Cranston portrays the famously eccentric scribe in a biopic based on Bruce Alexander Cook’s biography.

Trumbo will covered the writer’s infamous battle against the Hollywood black list, which saw he and many others branded as Communists in America in the 1950s, and denied as a outcome the right to work.

The film is filled with Broadway actors, including Bryan Cranston (All The Way, Breaking Bad) starring as Trumbo with Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, Diane Lane as Trumbo’s wife, Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper, with John Goodman and Roger Bart.

Celebrated screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who wrote “Spartacus“, “Roman Holiday“, “Johnny Got His Gun” and “The courageous One”, found himself at the epicenter of this dogfight and resisted, tooth-and-nail, being cut down for his own principles and ideology. Director Jay Roach’s New Orleans-shot drama, which filmed in town in fall 2014, got its first movie trailer this week.

Watch the trailer for Trumbo below.

Trumbo will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and the film will hit theaters on November 6.