EPIX Announces Release Date & Teaser Trailer To Godfather Of Harlem Season 2

EPIX has released a teaser trailer to the second season of its acclaimed series, Godfather Of Harlem. Season 2 will consist of 10 episodes and premiere on Epix in April 2021. The first season premiered in September 2019.

Godfather of Harlem tells a story inspired by infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Oscar winner Forest Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from eleven years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control. During the brutal battle, he forms an alliance with radical preacher Malcolm X – catching Malcolm’s political rise in the crosshairs of social upheaval and a mob war that threatens to tear the city apart. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history.

Vincent D'Onofrio will return as Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, with Ilfenesh Hadera as Mayme Johnson, Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X, Giancarlo Esposito as Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Lucy Fry as Stella Gigante, Ravi Gavron as Ernie Nunzi and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy as Elise Johnson.

Erik LaRay Harvey and Demi Singleton, who play Del Chance and Margaret Johnson, will appear as series regulars in the new season.

Season two will see Bumpy continue his struggle to reclaim command over Harlem from the Italian mobsters by attempting to seed internal discord and sever their vital heroin pipeline. Meanwhile, Malcolm X will be forced to choose between violent and nonviolent response to the near constant threats to his life and his relationship with Bumpy will be severely tested.

Godfather of Harlem is executive produced by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein. Whitaker also serves as an executive producer.