{"id":83974,"date":"2018-08-02T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/08\/02\/trailer-to-barry-jenkins-if-beale-street-could-talk\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:36:24","slug":"trailer-to-barry-jenkins-if-beale-street-could-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/trailer-to-barry-jenkins-if-beale-street-could-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer To Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trailer To Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

August 2, 2017<\/p>\n

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To celebrate James Baldwin’s birthday, Annapurna Pictures\u2019 has released the trailer to Academy Award-winning Beale Street and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ <\/strong>upcoming film\u00a0If Beale Street Could Talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cast of the film includes\u00a0Kiki Layne,\u00a0Stephan James, Teyonah Parris, Regina King, Colman Domingo,\u00a0Brian Tyree Henry, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein, Michael Beach,\u00a0Aunjanue Ellis and Finn Wittrock and Diego Luna.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

The film will have its World Premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Based on the novel by James Baldwin<\/strong>, \u201cIf Beale Street Could Talk,\u201d follows Tish (Layne), a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover\u2019s innocence while carrying their first born child.\u00a0The movie is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families, and their lives.<\/p>\n

James plays Fonny, Tish\u2019s fiance, while\u00a0Parris will play Tish\u2019s streetwise sister, Ernestine, who is determined to help her future brother-in-law\u00a0prove his innocence. King will play\u00a0Tish’s mother, Sharon.\u00a0Domingo will play Joseph, Tish\u2019s fiercely loving father who makes his daughter\u2019s crusade his own.\u00a0Henry will play Daniel Carty, a friend of Fonny (James).\u00a0Ellis and Beach are Alice and Frank Hunt, the parents of Fonny.<\/p>\n

Luna will play Pedrocito, a friend of Fonny and\u00a0the guy who works in the Spanish restaurant.<\/p>\n

The movie marks Jenkins\u2019 first production with Annapurna and a reunion of \u201cMoonlight\u2019s\u201d producing team with PASTEL and Plan B.\u00a0 \u201cMoonlight\u201d won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar and Best Adapted Screenplay, which Jenkins shared with co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Trailer<\/p>\n