Aaron Sorkin on How He Considered Turning ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Into a Musical
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variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorAaron Sorkin is widely considered the king of film and TV dialogue. Actors line up for a chance to feast on his words and the opportunity to deliver a Sorkin-penned speech.
And yet his monologues never seem out of place; they fit organically into his stories and his characters. Sorkin says there’s a musicality to that.“If you’re going to write a speech, you want the water to boil, you want to be able to get there,” Sorkin tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast. “It’s almost like in a musical.
A musical number always works best when it’s the result of words no longer being able to do the trick.” Listen below!Just this week, Sorkin landed his fourth Academy Award nomination for what may well be his.
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