Apple Original Films on Monday released the first trailer for “Emancipation,” a feature film starring Will Smith that tells the story of a black slave, based on a true story.
The film, directed by Antoine Fuqua, was screened this weekend to specialists and civil rights groups in the United States, earning public recognition.
The film will be released in theaters on December 2, while the streaming service will screen it from December 9.
The announcement came after it was ensured that the project would remain canned and would be released in 2023 due to the episode that Smith starred in at the last Oscars, in which he slapped comedian Chris Rock, who made a joke about his wife. Jada Pinkett Smith.
Various media say that Apple and the filmmaker plan to make the film compete in the next awards ceremony and be one of the favorites to win the Oscar.
Apple, which became the first streaming service to win the best picture Oscar for “CODA” last March, plans to replicate the feat with Will’s new movie, though some say it won’t be an easy task. .
This is due to the fact that some of the films that the platform recently released, such as Cha Cha Real Smooth and Luck, have failed to convince the specialists, as well as The Greatest Beer Run Ever by Peter Farrelly, which was a failure at the International Film Festival of Toronto.
Written by Bill Collage and produced by Todd Black, Joey McFarland and Jon Mone, “Emancipation” stars Smith, a slave known as Peter, who navigates the swamps of Louisiana to escape plantation owners, who nearly kill him.
The feature film began to make good impressions among specialists who have already seen the film and some media say that despite the actor’s incident at the beginning of the year, he could still be a candidate in the next awards season.
ABC