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Free State of Jones is set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Opposed to both slavery and secession, Knight launched an uprising of poor white farmers that led Jones County, Mississippi to itself secede from the Confederacy, creating a “Free State of Jones.”
His relationship and post-war marriage to a former slave, Rachel Knight (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), effectively established the region’s first mixed-race community. Knight, continued his fight into the post war period, resisting Klan activity through Reconstruction. His legendary rebellion distinguished Newt Knight as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.
Free State of Jones is written and directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) and also stars Keri Russell, Jacob Lofland and Sean Bridgers, and is released on May 27th in the UK but apart from the fact that this trailer seems to give away everything about the film, while it started off okay, the more it went on, the less I wanted to see it in the cinema since it just did not look that interesting.
Check out the trailer below and click on the new poster for the full-size image:
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