In African American history the phrase “Underground Railroad” is a metaphor that refers to a secret network of routes and safe houses that would help enslaved people escape to freedom. But in Barry Jenkins’ dazzlingly ambitious Amazon Prime Video serie, an adaptation of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, it is literal: there really is a fully functioning railroad beneath the Southern soil.
Taking place in an alternate timeline, Jenkins’s show stars Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall, a young girl making a desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South, with a relentless and sadistic slave-catcher—Joel Edgerton’s Ridgway—chasing hard on her heels.
Speaking on a panel for the series at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event, Moonlight Oscar-winner Jenkins revealed he’d been interested in working with Whitehead since the book was first published in 1999. “I’ve been a fan of Colson’s since his first novel,...
Taking place in an alternate timeline, Jenkins’s show stars Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall, a young girl making a desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South, with a relentless and sadistic slave-catcher—Joel Edgerton’s Ridgway—chasing hard on her heels.
Speaking on a panel for the series at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event, Moonlight Oscar-winner Jenkins revealed he’d been interested in working with Whitehead since the book was first published in 1999. “I’ve been a fan of Colson’s since his first novel,...
- 5/15/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
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