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  1. Feb 20, 2024 · Streaming. Why There Will Probably Never Be A Second Season Of Underground Railroad. Director Barry Jenkins had a clear vision for the show from the beginning. by Gretchen Smail. Updated:...

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  2. 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 will be available via Amazon on May 14, 2021. Jenkins' adaptation wrapped production in September 2020 and has been in the works since 2017, shortly after he picked up his first Oscar for Moonlight. Alongside the release date, Amazon released a powerful first look at the project: Jenkins is the sole director and showrunner ...

    As was the case for both of Jenkins' Oscar-nominated movies, The Underground Railroad hails from critically-acclaimed source material. The historical drama picked up a Pulitzer Prize, became a New York Times bestseller, was selected as one of Oprah's Book Club picks, and won the 2016 National Book Award for fiction. The series is poised to follow t...

    The Underground Railroad stars an ensemble full of both newcomers and seasoned actors. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in her first major onscreen role. She's joined by Chase W. Dillon as 10-year-old Homer, Joel Edgerton as bounty hunter Ridgeway, and The Good Place's William Jackson Harper as Royal. Hot off of The Undoing, Lily Rabe plays Ethel alongsid...

    On April 15, Amazon released the official trailer for the upcoming series, giving a powerful glimpse at Cora’s journey to freedom. As we await all 10 episodes of The Underground Railroad, Jenkins is hard at work on a slew of other projects, including a biopic about choreographer Alvin Ailey and a live-action sequel to The Lion King.

  3. 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.

  4. May 14, 2021 · A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. The overall arc of Cora’s narrative ebbs and flows through viciously realistic violence and into more dreamlike fantasies and back again.

  5. 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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  7. Apr 15, 2021 · As the series nears its May debut on the streaming service, audiences are finally getting a look at the first official trailer, key art. Here’s everything ET knows about the alternate history...