The Best of Enemies Debut trailer and expectations

The Best of Enemies trailer portrays an intense throw down in the battle for school integration.

Making his directorial debut, The Hunger Games producer, Robin Bissell, tackles the true life race war of the 1960’s and 70’s in this film. Based on the Osha Gray Davidson book, The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, this film features a fight between a civil rights activists going head to head against the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Durham, North Carolina circa 1971.

Ann Atwater, played by the talented Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson, leads the charge when she is forced to co-chair a committee overseeing the issue of school segregation with C.P. Ellis played by Oscar Winner Sam Rockwell.

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This pairing features two of Hollywood’s best reliving a difficult issue that changed the course of the public education system forever. Rockwell, coming off the exceptional Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri role of a lifetime, takes on the exhausting role of someone who has to power through his religion, seeking a common ground with someone fighting for her life.

Henson throws shades at a possible future nomination with what we can only imagine will be an emotional performance.

Watch the trailer, below: 

This real-life drama is scheduled to be released in 2019. Until then, you can see Sam Rockwell lay an iconic role as George W. in Adam McKay’s new upcoming movie, Vice. Christian Bale is set to play Dick Cheyney. Henson, on the other hand, will lend her voice as a new character Yesss in the upcoming sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Distributed by STX Films, The Best of Enemies is produced by Tobey Maguire and Danny Strong. The latter co-created and serves as current co-showrunner for Henson’s Emmy Nominee show, Empire. Wes Bentley, Anne Heche, and Bruce McGill round out the cast.

The film is set for an April 5, 2019, release. What are your thoughts on the trailer? Are you looking forward to the film? Comment below.