‘The Underground Railroad’ trailer revealed
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead have joined forces for a new series based on Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Amazon released the trailer yesterday for Jenkins’ small-screen adaptation of Whitehead’s best-selling novel about a young enslaved woman named Cora (Thuso Mbedu). Directed by Jenkins, the 10-episode period drama follows Cora as she flees a Georgia plantation in search of the Underground Railroad and uncovers a real, hidden network of engineers, tunnels and railroad tracks beneath the Southern terrain.