Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie Portray the Women of Fox News in 'Bombshell' Trailer

[Celerity]

Film dramatizes the sexual harassment allegations made towards Roger Ailes

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/bombshell-trailer-874678/

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie star as the women of Fox News in the trailer for Bombshell, Jay Roach’s new drama about the network and the scandal surrounding its founder, Roger Ailes. The film hits theaters in December.

The trailer is a simple one, demonstrating the gendered hierarchy at Fox and the searing tension (and alliances) between its women employees through a tense elevator sequence. Theron, dressed up in convincing prosthetics, plays Megyn Kelly, and Kidman portrays Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox & Friends co-host who first filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes. Robbie co-stars as Kayla Pospisil, a fictional Fox News associate producer invented for the movie.

“Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time: Fox News, and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it,” the film’s synopsis states.

Bombshell also stars John Lithgow as Ailes; Allison Janney as lawyer and Ailes legal counsel Susan Estrich; Malcolm McDowell as Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch; Mark Duplass as Kelly’s husband, Douglas Brunt; and Alice Eve as Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt. Additionally, Kate McKinnon has been cast as a fictional producer, and Rob Delaney will play an undisclosed role.

[Hortensis]

1. John Lithgow as Ailes? I'd watch for that.

[Wounded Bear]

6. He actually does evil pretty well...

[Hortensis]

7. Lol. Oh, yes! I knew him ONLY as evil characters long ago,

then one night his name in the intro caught my eye as I was scrolling. On some nothing cable channel, but if he was in it, just hoped it wouldn't be scary because my husband was gone. It was the first-ever episode of what turned out to be 3rd Rock from the Sun. I'd no idea and was absolutely gobsmacked. Can't giggle and guffaw with your jaw hanging open, though.

[grumpyduck]

2. Sure, another fictionalized story

that a lot of people will take for a real one.

If they wanted to tell the real story, they would have done a documentary.

[Celerity]

3. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes 2018 ‧ Documentary

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Great, thanks ! nt

[CTyankee]

5. I just saw all 3 episodes of "The Loudest Voice" with Russell Crowe brilliantly playing Ailes.

Now that Ailes is dead I see this and yet another Ailes expose drama. Can't wait to see this one!