Michael B. Jordan fights for Jamie Foxx in the trailer for the true story-based legal drama, Just Mercy. With awards season just around the corner, Warner Bros. is bringing several movies to the festivals in Telluride and Toronto over the next month, in an effort to improve their Oscar prospects. And among the WB films that don’t have a lot of buzz right now, but aim to change that after their festival debut, is Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
Directed and cowritten by Cretton and Andrew Lanham (The Glass Castle), Just Mercy follows Stevenson (Jordan) as a young lawyer fresh out of Harvard who heads to Alabama to defend Walter McMillian (Foxx), a man who’s been imprisoned for murder despite having evidence that proves his innocence. The film won’t open in theaters until the end of December (and only for a week-long awards qualifying run), but will screen at Toronto’s festival well ahead of then on September 6. In the meantime, its marketing is getting underway this week.
The Just Mercy trailer is now online, ahead of its premiere in theaters over the forthcoming weeks. You can check it out in the space below.
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Source: Warner Bros. Pictures
