Nicholas Britell Takes A Deep Dive Into The Stunning Score For ‘Underground Railroad’ [Interview]

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Whether you’ve already been enraptured by Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed masterpiece “The Underground Railroad” or been looking for an excuse to finally catch it, Amazon Studios and IFC Center have a new opportunity that might be once in a lifetime. A chance to see the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novel in its entirety on the big screen.

Clayton Davis The two leading characters of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Underground Railroad,” portrayed exquisitely by Joel Edgerton and breakout sensation Thuso Mbedu, are undeniably complex. Their performances are heightened by the work of the supporting players around them, particularly William Jackson Harper and newcomer Chase W.

The powerful finale of Amazon Studios’ limited series The Underground Railroad created by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins is the latest installment of Deadline’s It Starts On the Page, a series that highlights the scripts serving as the creative backbone of the TV awards season. The scripts have all been submitted for Emmy consideration this year and have been selected using criteria that includes critical acclaim, a range of networks and platforms, and a mix of established and lesser-known shows.

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If you have seen Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Video, you probably already had your breath taken away by its beauty, riveted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction. There is one other major takeaway from the series, however: the incredible performance from its star Thuso Mbedu.

Over the past decade, South African native Thuso Mbedu has starred in numerous television shows earning two International Emmy Award nominations in the process. When she was cast as Cora Randall in Barry Jenkins’ episodic adaptation of “The Underground Railroad,” she was startled by how little she knew of the conditions African American slaves endured from her education overseas.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorComposer Nicholas Britell recalls receiving an audio message from director and writer Barry Jenkins with no words or description to accompany it, just a drilling sound.“He didn’t even need to say to me what it was, I immediately thought, ‘I’m going to start experimenting with this,’” Britell says.And that was the beginning of Britell’s work on Jenkins’ 10-part Amazon Prime Video series “The Underground Railroad,” based on Colson Whitehead’s book of the same name,

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