Focus Features have released the first trailer for Jeff Nichols‘ Loving. This period piece – based on a true story – is Nichols’ follow-up to his ambitious misfire, Midnight Special.
Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton play Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial married couple jailed in 1960s Virginia for cohabitation. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Jeff Nichols movie without Michael Shannon.
Loving was well received at this year’s Cannes Festival, and Focus are releasing it stateside in November – right at the start of Oscar season. This could be the movie that sends Negga into the big leagues.
Loving is released on 3rd February 2017.