First Trailer & Poster For Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years As A Slave’

In his first two feature films, former artist turned writer/director Steve McQueen hardly put a foot wrong. Both the harrowing Bobby Sands biopic HUNGER and sex addiction drama SHAME were certainly riveting pieces of cinema that few would have wanted to revisit and his latest is another troubling, fact-based tale.

Reuniting with muse Michael Fassbender, 12 YEARS AS A SLAVE is an historical drama film based on the 1853 same-titled autobiography by Solomon Northup, who was a free black man who found himself kidnapped and sold into slavery in Washington D.C. during 1841 and forced to work on Louisiana plantations. Chiwetel Ejiofor portrays the tragic Northup in the film also boasting the fantastic supporting cast of Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Sarah Paulson and Paul Dano.

Check out the first trailer and poster.

12 YEARS AS A SLAVE is scheduled to be released in the US on the 18th October, while a UK date of the 24th January 2014 has been set. Expect this to feature strongly in awards season.

Source:  iTunes Movie Trailers