Amazon is still keeping its cards close to its chest with the teasers for
The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The new teaser is barely 30 seconds of beautiful footage, but importantly, it finally reveals the release date for the show.
The Underground Railroad follows Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), who escapes a Georgia plantation in search of the Underground Railroad and finds an
actual railroad. “Free or runaway?” a conductor asks Cora, who answers, “I’m not sure.” She is pursued by a bounty hunter, Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), who is fixated on capturing Cora for personal reasons: Her mother is the one person the hunter never managed to catch.
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Barry Jenkins Underground Railroad Gets Amazon Premiere Date TVLine 25/02/2021
After generating buzz for years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ slavery liberation drama,
The Amazon Prime limited series, which is based on Colton Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will premiere Friday, May 14, the streamer has announced. The highly anticipated adaptation follows Cora (played by South African newcomer Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved young Black woman who is an outcast on the Georgia cotton plantation where she lives. When she hears about an escape network that could free her from the forced bondage she has endured for far too long, Cora decides to risk her life and break free only to discover it is not a symbolic metaphor. Instead,
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.
Barry Jenkins Bringing Colson Whitehead s The Underground Railroad To Prime Video
The award-winning novel is being adapted into a limited series.
Barry Jenkins is bringing Colson Whitehead’s
The Underground Railroad to Amazon Prime Video. The Moonlight Director is producing a 10-episode limited series based on the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.
Jenkins is serving as the project’s executive producer and showrunner. In a post on Instagram, he hinted at the series offering a new perspective on the historical source material. “They say history is written by the winners,” he wrote in the caption of a clip from the project, “so let’s run it back.”