Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones star within the first trailer for Prime Video’s newest drama, The Burial.
Prime Video launched the primary trailer for The Burial, a brand new inspirational story directed by Maggie Betts. The movie sees a down-on-his-luck funeral home-owner enlist assist from a charismatic lawyer to sue a significant funeral firm over a contract dispute.
Watch the trailer for The Burial under (try extra trailers).
What’s The Burial about?
“Impressed by true occasions, when a handshake deal goes bitter, funeral home-owner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking lawyer Willie E. Gary (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx) to save lots of his household enterprise,” the official synopsis reads. “Tempers flare and laughter ensues because the unlikely pair bond whereas exposing company corruption and racial injustice on this inspirational, triumphant story.”
Primarily based on a 1999 New Yorker article of the identical title by Jonathan Harr, The Burial contains a story by Doug Wright (I Am My Personal Spouse, Quills) who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Betts. Foxx, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Datari Turner, Janette Kahn, Adam Richman, and Bobby Shriver all function producers.
The solid additionally contains Jurnee Smollett (Birds of Prey, Lovecraft Nation), Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World Dominion, Elemental), Pamela Reed (Kindergarten Cop), Invoice Camp (The Queen’s Gambit, Joker), and Alan Ruck (Succession, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off). Harrison Ford was initially solid in Jones’ position however dropped out in 2021.
The Burial marks Betts’ third time directing a function movie following 2010’s The Service and 2017’s Novitiate, the latter of which starred Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, and Alyssa Brindley.
The Burial will premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant earlier than it releases in choose theaters on October 6, 2023. The film will then hit Prime Video on October 13, 2023.