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Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk helmer Barry Jenkins will bring audiences back to the antebellum South for Amazon’s The Underground Railroad. Amid accounts of police brutality against members of the Black community and Hollywood’s attempts to correct hurtful and racist imagery, the showrunner spoke about the care he, his cast and crew took to address America’s dark history on-screen.
“It was as important as getting the scene right or the logistics, it was probably even more important
Jordan Rose Hip-hop has grown from a party in a South Bronx basement to a global soundtrack over its 47-year run.
Barry Jenkins turns to television for his latest project, a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, Starring Thuso Mbedu, which hit Amazon Prime Video last week. It’s his most ambitious project yet, set on a grander canvas and with much greater emotional stakes than anything he’s tackled before.
Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,, William Jackson Harper plays Royal, a freeborn man who helps a runaway slave named Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) as she goes on a harrowing journey through the antebellum South to find freedom by way of an underground network of trains, tracks and tunnels. “I just figured this is the kind of job that goes to other people,” Harper tells ET about coming off four years of, where he earned an Emmy nomination for
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Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind and, comes a stunningly beautiful and powerful TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,.
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Underground Railroad,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.In November 2018 South African actor Thuso Mbedu had her first U.S. audition.
“The Underground Railroad,” adapted from the Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. Jenkins directed all ten episodes of the series, and it shows — “The Underground Railroad” is a masterpiece.
Before we ever got a full teaser trailer for Barry Jenkins‘ new Amazon series, “The Underground Railroad,” the writer-director was keen to share out-of-context videos showcasing the beautiful filmmaking on display. This served to get film fans hyped for the series and to showcase that ‘Underground Railroad’ is something a bit more auteur-istic than your typical series.
Amazon, is at times unbearably painful to watch and at others achingly beautiful. Early reviews have declared the series a triumph and something only Jenkins could have pulled off.It was “the most satisfying creative experience of my life,” said Jenkins, who won an Oscar in 2017 for “Moonlight” and was nominated again the next year for "If Beale Street Could Talk.”It was also the biggest challenge he’s ever faced.“The story is so, so large and wide-ranging.
Haley Bosselman editorBest-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates will moderate a live conversation about the Amazon Prime Video series “The Underground Railroad,” Variety can announce exclusively.
It’s definitely not a requirement to be a well-versed cinephile to become a great filmmaker. However, you can’t imagine that it hurts to have a knowledge of some of the best directors around when trying to craft your own art.
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Arguably the most memorable moment to take place at the Academy Awards during the past decade was the Best Picture mixup that caused the 2017 Oscars to end in chaos.
Four years ago, Barry Jenkins experienced one of the best and strangest nights of his life. The filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning film, “Moonlight,” was awarded Best Picture but the situation involved a huge mess-up on the part of the presenters of the award falsely claiming that “La La Land” won instead.
Andrei Tarkovsky was the name on Barry Jenkins‘ lips as the main influence for his television adaptation of “The Underground Railroad.” Not the first name to think of when considering the enormity of Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel. The story: a combination of the distressing tribulations of an escapee slave girl with a hefty volume of magical realism, doesn’t immediately describe the Russian auteur.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticEvery single frame of “The Underground Railroad” is haunted.Ghosts of horrors past, present and future linger at the story’s edges, flicker in and out with eerie ease. People alive, dead and somewhere in between stare into the camera with quiet, solemn clarity.
After months of bare TV release schedules, May shows a return to form with plenty of new and returning series. While streaming services still monopolize many of the more popular releases, series such as “Pose,” returning for its final season, and “The Girlfriend Experience” offer a return to form for network television.
EXCLUSIVE: Though her highly-anticipated series The Underground Railroad doesn’t bow for another couple of weeks, Thuso Mbedu is lining up her next feature film as she has come on to TriStar Pictures’ The Woman King starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis. The pic will be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who most recently directed the critically acclaimed blockbuster, The Old Guard.
Having mixed feelings about Disney+‘s “The Falcon And The Winter Solider” for any reason? Well, Marvel and Kevin Feige don’t share that view if you do. The series just ended today, but Marvel Studios is already planning a continuation of “The Falcon And Winter Soldier” story in a “Captain America 4.” What’s more, in a big vote of confidence, they’re retapping Malcolm Spellman, the showrunner and head writer of ‘Falcon & Winter Solider’ to write and develop the movie.