New Trailer & Poster for director Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
MGM’s Orion Pictures has released a new trailer for Chinonye Chukwu’s (Clemency) feature film, TILL, which hits select theaters October 14th and everywhere October 28th
Till stars Danielle Deadwyler (Mamie Till Mobley), Jalyn Hall (Emmett Till), Frankie Faison (John Carthan), Haley Bennett (Carolyn Bryant), Sean Patrick Thomas (Gene Mobley), John Douglas Thompson (Moses Wright), Jayme Lawson (Myrlie Evers), Tosin Cole (Medgar Evers) and Whoopi Goldberg (Alma Carthan).
Produced by Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly and Frederick Zollo, the film is written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu.
Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement. As Time Magazine reported, “…thanks to a mother’s determination to expose the barbarousness of the crime, the public could no longer pretend to ignore what they couldn’t see.” Mamie’s decision to have an open casket at Emmett’s funeral, and to have Jet magazine publish David Jackson’s funeral photos, was driven by her motivation to ensure people everywhere knew what had happened to her son.
Till is based in part on the original research of Keith Beauchamp for his award winning 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
