Superb Official Trailer for RaMell Ross’ Acclaimed Film ‘Nickel Boys’
by Alex Billington
September 5, 2024
Source: YouTube
Meet the Nickel Boys. MGM + Orion have revealed the first trailer for the film Nickel Boys, which just premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival last weekend. It earned quite a few rave reviews from critics as a follow-up to director RaMell Ross’ feature debut Hale County This Morning This Evening (2018). I also included Nickel Boys on my fall festival “10 Films to Keep An Eye On” guide a few weeks ago. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Yes this looks like it’s wonderful. Nickel Boys stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, & Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Tremendous! The film is presented mainly from the POV of the main characters, which gives it an especially distinct look and feel. The initial reviews also state: “By the time the credits roll, Ross will have made a lasting & unique impression of heartbreak on the souls of all who watch his film—precisely the cinematic treatment that Whitehead’s novel required.” Yep.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, direct from MGM’s YouTube:
Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, their existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner. Nickel Boys is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker RaMell Ross, his second film after making Hale County This Morning This Evening previously. The screenplay is written by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes. Adapted from the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead. Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Joslyn Barnes. This first premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Orion & MGM will debut Nickel Boys in theaters starting on October 25th, 2024.
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