New Trailer for Amazon's THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD From Director Barry Jenkins
A new trailer has been released for the upcoming limited series The Underground Railroad that is headed to Amazon. This is the most recent project for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), who directed as well as co-wrote the series, which is based on the book by Colson Whitehead.
Here’s the synopsis:
In The Underground Railroad, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) escapes a Georgia plantation and goes looking for “the rumored Underground Railroad,” only to discover it’s “no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught. As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind and her own struggles to realize a life she never thought was possible.”
Thuso Mbedu and Joel Edgerton are joined in the cast by Chase W. Dillon, 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.
This looks like a beautifully made series, and I am excited to check it out. Watch the trailer below, and all episodes of The Underground Railroad when they premiere on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.
via: /Film