Period drama Free State Of Jones may not have had the best luck with critics or audiences in the States, but that's not stopping the new Matthew Mcconaughey movie, due here in a couple of months. Here's the latest trailer...
McConaughey stars 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.
Naturally, his former military masters decided to hunt him and his new community down, forcing Knight to take up guerrilla tactics against the army.
With Gary Ross on writing and directing duty and Jacob Lofland, Keri Russell and Mahershala Ali also in the cast, Free State Of Jones is out here on September 30.