The Good Lord Bird — Showtime’s adaptation of James McBride’s Nationwide E-book Award-winning historic novel written, produced by, and starring Ethan Hawke as legendary abolitionist John Brown — premieres Oct. 4, and TV Information has an unique take a look at the brand new trailer for the extremely anticipated restricted sequence.
John Brown was a white man who fought towards slavery in antebellum America — actually. Many abolitionists on the time had been pacifists, however John Brown was not. He was prepared to kill and die for the trigger, and he did. He fought within the Bleeding Kansas battles over slavery in 1856, and led an tried slave rebellion in Virginia in 1859. He was hanged for treason after that, however his battle helped provoke abolitionists and was an vital step on the trail towards the beginning of the Civil Conflict the subsequent 12 months.
John Brown was additionally a particularly bizarre man. “God whispered in my ear, ‘Begin a warfare that may finish slavery,'” Brown says within the trailer. Sure, he heard the voice of God. Within the trailer, he additionally asks a bunny if it has a hearth in its coronary heart for justice, and he does loads of maniacal screaming. Tons and plenty of Bob Odenkirk-style screaming. As a result of the factor you may not count on about The Good Lord Chook, each the e-book and the restricted sequence, is that it is a comedy. There aren’t loads of antebellum comedies, however that is one.
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Along with Hawke, the forged consists of Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass, Wyatt Russell as First Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, and Joshua Caleb Johnson as Onion, a boy who Brown inadvertently orphans then frees from slavery, however thinks is a woman, and from whose standpoint the story is informed.
The Good Lord Chook premieres Sunday, Oct. Four at 9/8c on Showtime.
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