If you've seen the first trailer for new Matthew McConaughey drama Free State Of Jones, chances are you'll know the basic set-up. Though this new look at the film does cover similar ground. Have a look below.
Gary Ross has scripted and directed this one, which finds McConaughey as real-life advocate Newton Knight. A Mississippi farmer and loyal Confederate recruit in the American Civil War, he defected from the army and took a group of like-minded troops with him to create the Free State of Jones on a patch of land next to a swamp. Knight later married a slave (Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Rachel), creating one of the first ever publicised mixed race unions in the South, fought against the Confederates from within his new territory and led a daring raid to free children who were still enslaved following the end of the conflict.
Of course, it wasn't quite that easy, as his former military masters decided to hunt him and his new community down, forcing Knight to take up guerrilla tactics against the army.
With Jacob Lofland, Keri Russell, Mahershala Ali, Sean Bridgers and Christopher Berry also in the cast, Free State Of Jones is out in the UK on September 9.