One of the most hotly anticipated streaming events is the forthcoming Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad, based on the celebrated novel by Colson Whitehead and directed by Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins. Jenkins has recently taken to his Vimeo account to release some footage, and today revealed something more traditionally teaser-like. And it is just as gorgeous as you’d probably imagine it’d be. The Underground Railroad imagines the railroad as both a series of safehouses and secret routes for slaves to safely pass, but also as an actual railroad system. (This is why the novel won the …
On Monday, Barry Jenkins released the first teaser for The Underground Railroad, his new television series coming soon to Amazon Prime Video. The Underground Railroad is adapted from Colson Whitehead's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. In addition to directing all episodes of The Underground Railroad, Jenkins has also written every episode, too, making this one of his biggest creative projects to date. Jenkins shared the first teaser clip from The Underground Railroad on Twitter on Monday afternoon. The clip is simple, yet very effective and very gorgeous (as all things from the lens of Jenkins …
In 2017, we reported on filmmaker Barry Jenkins' (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) upcoming television adaptation of The Underground Railroad, based on the acclaimed novel by Colson Whitehead. The unique, engaging alternate history show is coming to Amazon with all episodes directed by Jenkins. And now, per Amazon Studios' official Twitter, Jenkins has shared the first images from the work. And they are beautifully lensed, haunting looks at what's sure to be a provocatively engaging series. Photography only wrapped on the series eight days ago (according to Jenkins' Twitter), so to get this level of photography, color, and …
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