If you watched last night’s BET Awards you may have seen the premiere trailer for the upcoming drama film, QUEEN & SLIM starring Academy Award® nominee Daniel Kaluuya as “Slim” and Jodie Turner-Smith as “Queen.” Following the premise of a Bonnie & Clyde theme but with a modern and cultural perspective, this movie is sure to get some buzz and in-depth conversation flowing.
Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas (Director of Beyonce’s “Formation” and the Nike “Equality” campaign) are the masterminds behind this epic story. Waithe wrote the script based on an original idea by bestselling author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, Katerina). QUEEN & SLIM will be Melina Matsoukas’ feature-film directorial debut. As the executive producer of HBO’s “Insecure” Matsoukas is no stranger to this cinematic world.
View the trailer below and stay tuned for the official premiere in theaters November 27, 2019.
ABOUT THE FILM:
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.
As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the most dire and desperate of circumstances, and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives.
