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Hold on to what belongs to you.”. From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel b...
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The Underground Railroad: With Thuso Mbedu, Chase Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Reshonnah Harvey. A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.
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The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.
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Taking place in an alternate history, the series will follow Cora’s (Mbedu)harrowing journey to freedom after escaping a Georgia plantation in the antebellum South for the rumored Underground Railroad, which is a secret network of tracks and tunnels run by engineers and conductors. Throughout her journey, Cora grapples with the memories of her moth...
Thuso Mbeduas Cora, a lonely slave who was outcast by others on the plantation after her mother abandoned her. Joel Edgertonas Ridgeway, a bounty hunter who is determined to find Cora after being evaded by her mother decades earlier. Chase W. Dillonas Homer, a 10-year-old slave bought by Ridgeway. William Jackson Harperas Royal, a person Cora encou...
The series was filmed on location in various parts of Georgia starting in the summer of 2019 and was temporarily shut down by the coronavirus outbreakthat led to a lockdown throughout most of the country. However, the production was able to start again amid the pandemic, with Jenkins announcing that filming had wrappedat the end of September 2020. ...
Leading up to its debut, Jenkins has shared several moody clips, giving audiences a taste of what’s to come from this adaptation. In the first video, “Randall. Cora Randall.,” the director shares the first look at Mbedu as Cora. Meanwhile, the second video, “Preamble,” offers a look at the passengers as well as the conductors and engineers who run ...
Official Trailer. A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.
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Apr 16, 2021 · The official trailer for the adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is here. A new Barry Jenkins project is an event in cinema, and now the auteur behind the Academy Award...
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Apr 15, 2021 · Barry Jenkins’s long-awaited mini series ‘The Underground Railroad,’ adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, gets a trailer and May 14 premiere date on Amazon Prime...
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