Apple Original Films finally unveiled the Will Smith movie Emancipation tonight at The Regency Village Theatre in Westwood.
The pic, in which Smith plays a runaway slave who embarks on a death-defying 10-day journey to escape his captors through swamps to a safe haven with the Union army, has long been buzzed about.
It’s a role that will rival the actor’s Oscar-winning turn this past year as Venus and Serena Williams’ coach/father, Richard Williams, in King Richard.
While Smith’s scandal with Chris Rock at the Oscars put the pic’s release in question earlier this year, a well-received early NAACP-hosted screening in DC paved the way for Emancipation to find its way into a Q4 release in theaters this Friday and on AppleTV+ on Dec.
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