Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
What if the Underground Railroad wasn’t a metaphor but an actual, physical railroad, complete with engineers, conductors, and secret tracks? That’s the premise of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Underground Railroad, and the premise of the new Amazon series that adapts it.
Moonlight filmmaker
Barry Jenkins directs the 10-episode series that looks pretty damn great, and today a new teaser trailer arrived along with the official premiere date.
The Underground Railroad Trailer
The Underground Railroad so far, and they’ve all been stunning. But they’ve also been a bit abstract – mostly showcasing the gorgeous visuals along with the equally gorgeous score from Nicholas Britell. This new teaser trailer is a bit more traditional, but it continues to suggest that the new Amazon series from Barry Jenkins is going to be an absolute must-see.
Teaser and Premiere Date
The series was filmed on location in various parts of Georgia starting in the summer of 2019 and was temporarily shut down by the coronavirus outbreak that led to a lockdown throughout most of the country. However, the production was able to start again amid the pandemic, with Jenkins announcing that filming had wrapped at the end of September 2020.
Since then Jenkins has released several moody teasers (
see below) ahead of the first official trailer, which was released by Amazon in February, alongside an official premiere date of May 14, 2021. In the evocative clip, a voice can be heard saying, “We are Africans in America. Something new to the history of the world,” over a new montage of footage from the series.
Director
Barry Jenkins has released another teaser called “In Aeternum” as part of his upcoming Amazon Original series “The Underground Railroad” chronicles, based on
Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel.
The clip above brings you further into the world of the series by providing glimpses of various character’s journeys and a sampling of composer
Nicholas Britell’s singular score.
“As we kept editing more and more on the show, there’d be these moments that, as I was watching them, my mind would immediately start unseeing them, and I thought, ‘I think there’s something here’,” said Britell. “So I was literally walking out of the office on one Friday and said to Daniel Morfesis, who cut this piece, ‘Here’s a song. Listen to it, and I want to come in Monday, and all I want to see are images played in reverse. And the catch is those images have to narratively say as much in reverse as they do going forward.’ And so it kind of came out of my own emotion
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