Walk and talk with us. An upcoming Aaron Sorkin movie and its all-star cast are filming at two colleges in Morris County.

The film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7," follows the 1969 trial of a group of men who faced charges —including conspiracy and inciting to riot — after a counterculture uprising and Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Thousands of police officers, the Illinois National Guard and Army soldiers clashed with protesters.

The production, which previously filmed in Chicago, was on campus Tuesday and Wednesday at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Florham campus in Madison, a spokesman told NJ Advance Media.

Sorkin, 58, is also filming less than a mile away at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown. Filming is set for Thursday at the college’s Hyland Hall, a lecture hall located within Henderson Hall, and at Santa Maria, a building that houses classrooms and offices.

“The fact that they chose CSE and New Jersey speaks highly of the College and the state as a great shooting location for world-class productions such as this," Patricia Devlin, the college’s director of conference and event services, said in a statement to NJ Advance Media.

Writer and director Aaron Sorkin is filming "The Trial of the Chicago 7" for a September 2020 release.Emma McIntyre| Getty Images

College of Saint Elizabeth spokeswoman Denise Panyik-Dale says that the upcoming Apple TV Plus series “Little America,” an anthology series about the immigrant experience that filmed in 21 New Jersey towns, also filmed recently at the college.

Sorkin is the writer and director of the long-stalled film project, which stars actors Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl," “The Theory of Everything”), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“Inception”), Jeremy Strong (“Succession”), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen”), Michael Keaton, Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat”), Thomas Middleditch (“Silicon Valley”), William Hurt (“A History of Violence”), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (“Luce”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”) and Bayonne native Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”).

The Chicago Seven was made actually made up of eight people:

Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), an activist who co-founded the Youth International Party, known as Yippies; Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party; Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society; anti-war activist Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong); Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), an organizer of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins), who went on to become a professor of sociology at Rutgers University; and pacifist David Dellinger.

Sacha Baron Cohen will play Abbie Hoffman, co-founder of the Youth International Party and one of the Chicago Seven.Frazer Harrison | Getty Images

Michael Keaton plays progressive lawyer and former attorney general Ramsey Clark, and William Hurt portrays John Mitchell, the attorney general at the time of the trial. Frank Langella plays Judge Julius Hoffman, who ordered Seale to be chained and gagged during the trial. Mark Rylance plays William Kunstler, the attorney who defended the men, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is prosecutor Richard Schultz.

While the group was acquitted of conspiracy charges, some were convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, and those convictions were overturned in 1972.

Sorkin, who is known for writing brisk dialogue to go along with the “walk and talk” style of direction seen on TV’s “The West Wing,” made his directorial debut with “Molly’s Game” in 2017. He won an Oscar in 2011 for best adapted screenplay for “The Social Network.” He also has six Emmys for “The West Wing.” Sorkin created the series, which ran on NBC from 1999 to 2006.

“The Trial of the Chicago 7,″ a Paramount Pictures film, is due in theaters on Oct. 2, 2020.

Have a tip? Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @AmyKup or on Facebook.

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