Creator Aaron Sorkin Hopes 'The West Wing' Special Will Drive Fans to the Polls (Exclusive)

Aaron Sorkin, together with cast members from The West Wing, the Broadway company of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher, are coming together next week to host the Broadway for Biden election phone banking event. From The West Wing, participating stars include Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney and Dule Hill, while writers Eli Attie, Deborah Cahn and Josh Singer will also be involved.

The West Wing will be streaming on All4 from later this month.Aaron Sorkin’s political drama series, which ran on NBC from 1999 to 2006, focused on the lives of presidential senior staff in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office is located.Nick Lee, Head of Series Acquisitions for Channel 4, shared the news by nodding to the upcoming presidential election on November 3.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Francisco Film has selected filmmakers Aaron Sorkin and Chloe Zhao for honors at its annual San Francisco Film Awards ceremonies, due to be livestreamed on Dec. 9.Sorkin, whose “Trial of the Chicago 7” is streaming on Netflix, will receive the Kanbar award for storytelling.

If you have Netflix, you’re well aware that Aaron Sorkin’s latest feature, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” is now available to stream globally on the platform. The new drama tells the true story of a group of people in the late-‘60s that were accused of conspiracy after protesting the Democratic National Convention.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 begins streaming today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters that are open around the country, not L.A. or NY obviously, and receptive to playing it.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“I don’t see how we could have made the film now had we not shot in Chicago,” writer and director Aaron Sorkin says of his new film “Trial of the Chicago 7,” now streaming on Netflix.Five decades after it took place, Aaron Sorkin tells the story of the seven defendants who were charged by the federal government with conspiracy after protests broke out at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThere is a very good mix of theatrical, digital, VOD and hybrid releases this weekend starting with The Kid Detective from Stage 6 Films starring Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse.Written and directed by Evan Morgan, the movie is about exactly what the title suggests: a kid detective. Brody plays a once-celebrated kid detective who is now 31 and isn’t exactly bathing in fame.

Also Read: 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' Film Review: Aaron Sorkin's Vital Drama Delivers Both Talk and ActionSorkin wrote and directed the film.See below for five facts about the making of the film.Sorkin combed through 21,000 pages of court documents — after all, the trial went on for almost five months. But what he couldn’t find in those documents were certain personality traits and relationship characteristics about individual people.

The cast of The West Wing reunited and brought an episode of the acclaimed political drama to the stage in a bid to encourage people to vote.

Aaron Sorkin is known for certain trademarks: the walk-and-talk, the breathless dialogue, crescendos of feeling. You know the drill: Martin Sheen quotes the bible, an orchestra swells and then we cry.But the writer hasn’t given us that ultra-satisfying, sweeping Sorkin package much since “The West Wing” ended.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 has just been released – check it out exclusively below.The song, written by Daniel Pemberton, scores the new Netflix drama about the real-life trial against a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.Pemberton told NME that the score was entirely composed remotely, his only interaction with the Chicago 7 team being a one-hour meeting with Sorkin in Los Angeles months ago.“He had already mapped the

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“See the whole board,” a chess-instructing Martin Sheen’s President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe’s Sam Seaborn in HBO Max’s A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote.Originally uttered in 2002’s “Hartsfield’s Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang heavy in the digital air during these final weeks before this year’s election.

election outcome in a bellwether New England town.The story “ends up being kind of an ode to voting,” Sorkin said.That dovetails with the special's goal of spotlighting When We All Vote, a non-profit group created to increase election participation. Its co-chairs include former first lady Michelle Obama, who will be heard from during intermissions.

Dule Hill got an email from Aaron Sorkin asking if he and his West Wing co-stars would reunite for the first time in years for a special episode, it didn't take Hill long to say yes. In fact, the answer was immediate.

When you watch the trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming drama, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” it’s clear that the film takes place in the ‘60s, with its era-appropriate costumes and politics. The film is obviously about the real trial of a group of people that were accused of conspiracy after protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

“The West Wing” is back, although the opening credits in the video above are looking a little different now that the White House is a coronavirus hot spot.

The cast of The West Wing has reunited for a special that will debut on HBO Max next week, with weeks to go until the general election.