Amazon Prime Video shared the first trailer for ‘The Underground Railroad,’ director Barry Jenkins’ limited series about the Civil War-era slave-liberating network premiering all 10 episodes on May 14. Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ Drops Official Trailer
Newcomer Thuso Mbedu as Cora shines in the stirring, intense first trailer which provides a better idea of the difficult journey that she will have to go make to be free. It highlighted the series’ stunning cinematography and gripping storytelling that Jenkins’ is best known. The presence of the deep south, set against swaying willow trees at sunrise, our first vision is of a young woman brave and alone. We’re deeply drawn into cotton fields and brown glowing faces enduring pain from the hands of the white man. The trailer ends Cora aiming a pistol and shooting. The fight for freedom has begun.
Based on author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the 10-episode series focuses on a slave named Cora Randall who, following her escape from a Georgia plantation, journeys out of the Antebellum South via the rumored “Underground Railroad.” Along the way, she is pursued by a bounty hunter harboring a grudge, as the only slave ever to evade him was Cora’s mother. As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother who left her behind and her own struggles to realize a life she never thought was possible. Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ Series Drops Trailer
Jenkins serves as showrunner and director of all 10 episodes of the series, the “Moonlight” filmmaker’s first foray into television. ‘The Underground Railroad ‘ stars Thuso Mbedu as Cora, along with Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “MJ” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan. Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ Drops Official Trailer
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