Amazon Prime has released the full trailer for Oscar-winning “Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ limited series “The Underground Railroad” which arrives on the service on May 14th.
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the eleven-episode series is set in an alternate timeline where the Underground Railroad is literally a secret railroad station – instead of a network of secret routes and safe houses established by Abolitionists.
The series follows Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia who is an outcast even amongst her fellow Africans and is struggling to come into womanhood.
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.
She’s pursued across the antebellum South by a bounty hunter named Ridgeway, who is tasked on ringing her back to the plantation, especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.
Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Aaron Pierre, Joel Edgerton, Damon Herriman, William Jackson Harper, Amber Gray, Jim Klock, Lily Rabe, Fred Hechinger, and Owen Harn star.
