The true story follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war “carnival” that turned nasty.
Deadline reports that Jonathan Majors, the breakout star from the 2018 crime biopic White Boy Rick, is currently in talks to star in the long-developed political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 from The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin.
Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames.
The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot.