Everything comes out in the blues. Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which features both Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in his final role. George C. Wolfe directs the film, which will head to the streamer in December. Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the August Wilson stage play of the same name.
Here’s a little more about the story.
Tensions and temperatures rise over the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago as a band of musicians await trailblazing performer, the legendary “Mother of the Blues,” Ma Rainey (Academy Award® winner Viola Davis). Late to the session, the fearless, fiery Ma engages in a battle of wills with her white manager and producer over control of her music. As the band waits in the studio’s claustrophobic rehearsal room, ambitious trumpeter Levee (Chadwick Boseman) — who has an eye for Ma’s girlfriend and is determined to stake his own claim on the music industry — spurs his fellow musicians into an eruption of stories revealing truths that will forever change the course of their lives.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom lands on Netflix on 18th December.
