After Wonder Woman 1984 was postponed last week, the near future for theatrical movies seems a bit uncertain. In the midst of a strange (and especially unpleasant) year for new movies, Netflix has picked up a number of movies that were once scheduled for theatrical release but are instead streaming to their subscribers. They include The Lovebirds from earlier this year, next week's Enola Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown, and now The Trial of the Chicago 7 from director Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game and writer of The Social Network). Netflix has offered a first trailer for the latest film, which opens on October 16. It is a star-studded historical docudrama, with a cast starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, and Michael Keaton, among many others. Check out the trailer below: The film is based on the infamous 1969 trial that followed a counterculture protest at the Democratic National Convention the previous year, when the federal government tried to bring riot charges against seven people. A backlash from local police and the government has worsened the situation. Here's an excellent article from The Guardian about what the trial represented a moment in American history. In fact, Sorkin wrote the script for The Trial of the Chicago 7 over a decade ago, and Steven Spielberg was once committed to directing it. The movie's theme is likely to resonate in this of all years, so let's hope it lives up to its potential. Sorkin's last film, Molly's Game, was a well-written but bloated biopic, and it was hard to care about the subject. Still, a courtroom drama sits in the writer's wheelhouse behind A Few Good Men.