Top: Barry Jenkins, Nicholas Britell; Bottom: Hannah Giorgis
It’s easy to admire the transportive work of filmmaker Barry Jenkins and composer Nicholas Britell, but who knew they’d embody #friendshipgoals too?
Jenkins and Britell anchored one of the first featured sessions out of the gate of this year’s entirely virtual SXSW Online. During a 55-minute chat, pretaped focused on their musical collaborative process, moderated by Hannah Giorgis of The Atlantic, the pair ran through their first introduction six years ago and the projects they’ve embarked upon together:
Moonlight (which earned Britell his first Oscar nomination),
The Underground Railroad. (Additionally, Britell won an Emmy in 2018 for his addictive main title theme for HBO’s
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Amazon is still keeping its cards close to its chest with the teasers for
The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The new teaser is barely 30 seconds of beautiful footage, but importantly, it finally reveals the release date for the show.
The Underground Railroad follows Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), who escapes a Georgia plantation in search of the Underground Railroad and finds an
actual railroad. “Free or runaway?” a conductor asks Cora, who answers, “I’m not sure.” She is pursued by a bounty hunter, Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), who is fixated on capturing Cora for personal reasons: Her mother is the one person the hunter never managed to catch.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ upcoming historical fiction miniseries
The Underground Railroad premiere date has been revealed by Amazon Prime, along with new key art you can check out in the gallery below! The series will debut on May 14.
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name,
The Underground Railroad 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.