First Underground Railroad Trailer Reveals Barry Jenkins’ Highly-Anticipated Amazon Series
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Amazon has released the first full official trailer for The Underground Railroad, directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins. The 10-episode limited series is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with Jenkins serving as the project’s showrunner.
According to a press release,
The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a 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.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.