Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ gets an official teaser trailer.

The first teaser trailer has landed for Prime’s adaptation of The Underground Railroad.

From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.

The series will feature Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “MJ” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan.

The limited series lands on Prime Video on May 14th, 2021.

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