Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston: first trailer

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.

The man who brought you Walter White on “Breaking Bad“, Bryan Cranston, is about to make his breakthrough Hollywood cinema masterpiece in the new period film and true story, “Trumbo“.

It’s an infamous tale of broken lives, strangled creative dreams and tunnel-visioned cowardice on the part of Hollywood’s major studio system at the height of the anti-communist McCarthy era.

“If we get one big movie, we can get all the big movies”, states Cranston in the trailer.

“The blacklist is alive and well, and so is the black market”, Trumbo declares in the trailer.

Although it is intended to be a dramatic period piece, there are many points in the trailer that come off as amusing and Cranston plays the role well.

Trumbo spent 11 months in prison when he wouldn’t testify for the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, and afterward began ghostwriting Academy Award winning films such as Roman Holiday and The fearless One.

Trumbo also stars Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, John Goodman, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, Alan Tudyk, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Michael Stuhlberg. It’ll open in select theaters on November 6.