Barry Jenkins’ ‘Underground Railroad’ teaser bowls over peers: ‘I am not ready’

Barry is back, and we’re not ready. On Monday, Barry Jenkins, acclaimed director of the Oscar-winning films “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” shared a teaser trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series that he wrote, produced and directed. It’s that simple.” The “Underground Railroad” limited series is based on Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the same name. — Lulu Wang October 19, 2020 “Going back to ‘The Intuitionist,’ Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and ‘The Underground Railroad’ is no different,” Jenkins said in a March 2017 statement. “‘The Underground Railroad’ is a massive job,” Jenkins said in 2017.