The TV series based on Colson Whitehead‘s hugely successful novel The Underground Railroad is set to be released on the 14th May 2021. Here, we break down everything we know so far about the TV show.
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Underground Railroad’ is set to be released in just a few weeks – on the 14th May 2021. The much-anticipated TV show has been created by the same filmmaker behind ‘Moonlight’ – Barry Jenkins. Whitehead’s novel narrates an alternate history of two slaves – Cora and Caesar – in the southeastern United States during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgian plantation, following The Underground Railroad. It’s a harrowing novel about the search for freedom.
Amazon’s synopsis for Jenkins’ adaptation, follows the same lines:
“The limited series chronicles young Cora’s (Thuso Mbedu) journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.”
Thuso Mbedu will star in the series alongside Chase W. Dillon, Aaron Pierre and Joel Edgerton.
The show will premiere on May 14, after production was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic – only three days of production were left when the show was called to a half in Georgia.
