Powerful Teaser Trailer For FENCES, Starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis
Holy crap, this looks great.
Paramount has just released the first teaser trailer for Fences, a new movie starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and this is one of the best trailers of the year. Fences is a film adaptation of a 1983 play by August Wilson, and Wilson wrote the screenplay for the movie. Washington and Davis played these roles in a revival of the play back in 2010, and both won Tony Awards for their acting. In addition to playing the lead role, Washington is also directing this movie, which is the first in a deal he made with Wilson that involves collaborating to bring more of his plays to life on HBO.
At first, I thought this was just going to be an HBO movie, but I'm glad to see that Paramount is going to put it in theaters. This looks like a super powerful drama with knock-out performances from both leads, and if the rest of the script is nearly as good as the section we hear in this teaser, we're in for a real treat.
Fences hits theaters on December 25, 2016.