Teaser Trailer For The Historical Fiction Miniseries THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Writer and director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) has shared the first teaser trailer for his upcoming historical fiction miniseries, The Underground Railroad.
The story is set in an alternate timeline of the real-life titular underground network of secret routes and safe houses that was created in the mid-19 century that was used by enslaved African-Americans to escape to free states.
The show is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and the story follows Cora, “a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia who is an outcast even amongst her fellow Africans and is struggling coming into womanhood when she meets Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia who informs her of the Underground Railroad, inspiring them both to take the risk and escape to freedom.”
These events lead Cora on a journey “as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the southern soil.”
The series stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Aaron Pierre, Joel Edgerton, Damon Herriman, William Jackson Harper, Amber Gray, Jim Klock, Lily Rabe, Fred Hechinger, and Owen Harn.
The 11-episode limited series has been in development for a long time. There’s no release date yet, but it’s expected to debut on Amazon Prime.
Via: ComingSoon