This 60-second teaser trailer for Barry Jenkins’ upcoming series “The Underground Railroad” is set to Jenkins regular Nicholas Britell’s original score. Britell contributed the original music for Jenkins’ “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” plus he’s also responsible for the excellent, Emmy-winning original score for HBO’s “Succession.”
“The Underground Railroad” is Jenkins and Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Jenkins directed all nine episodes of the limited series. Cast members include Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, and Joel Edgerton.
Amazon’s synopsis for “The Underground Railroad” reads:
“The limited series chronicles young Cora’s (Mbedu) 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.”
Jenkins announced last month that production on “The Underground Railroad” wrapped after a lengthy 116-day shoot. Wowza. I’m very much looking forward to this one. Especially with Jenkins directing all of the episodes. The only question I have is, when is this being released? “The Underground Railroad” does not have a release date yet, but could it come out before the year is done?
Oh, Sebastian Stan … he tells Variety that walking onto the set of "The Batman: Part II" gives him the feeling that he might be making "The Godfather: Part II." His exact words.