{"id":84185,"date":"2018-08-21T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/08\/21\/poster-to-steve-mcqueens-widows-starring-viola-davis\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:35:54","slug":"poster-to-steve-mcqueens-widows-starring-viola-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/poster-to-steve-mcqueens-widows-starring-viola-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster To Steve McQueen\u2019s \u201cWidows\u201d Starring Viola Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poster To Steve McQueen\u2019s \u201cWidows\u201d Starring Viola Davis<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

August 21, 2018<\/p>\n

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Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox have released a new trailer for “Widows,”<\/strong> a blistering,\u00a0modern-day thriller from Academy Award winning director Steve McQueen<\/strong> (\u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn<\/strong> (\u201cGone Girl\u201d).<\/p>\n

A remake of the 1980s Lynda La Plante mini-series, the film stars Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Garret Dillahunt, Carrie Coon, Jacki Weaver, Adepero Oduye, Jon Bernthal, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo with Robert Duvall<\/strong> and Liam Neeson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Set against the backdrop of\u00a0crime, passion and corruption, \u201cWidows\u201d is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands\u2019 criminal activities.\u00a0Set in contemporary Chicago,\u00a0amid\u00a0a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar winner Viola Davis<\/strong>), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki<\/strong>), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez<\/strong>) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>) take their fate into their own hands and conspire\u00a0to forge a future on their own terms.<\/p>\n

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See-Saw Films\u2019 Oscar winning team of Iain Canning <\/strong>(\u201cThe King\u2019s Speech\u201d) and Emile Sherman<\/strong> (\u201cThe King\u2019s Speech\u201d) are producers with Bergen Swanson (\u201cShame\u201d) serving as executive producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWidows\u201d creative production team includes director of photography Sean Bobbit <\/strong>(\u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d), Academy Award\u00ae-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen <\/strong>(\u201cThe Grand Budapest Hotel\u201d), costume designer Jenny Eagan <\/strong>(\u201cBeasts of No Nation\u201d) and Oscar\u00ae-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen <\/strong>(\u201cMoneyball\u201d).<\/p>\n

“Widows” will be released in theaters on November 16, 2018.<\/p>\n