12 Years A Slave

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Director:

Steve McQueen

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyongo

Release Date:

Friday 18 October

      12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. after being lured from Saratoga Springs, New York in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup’s memoir, co-edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon in 1968, carefully retraced and validated his account, finding it to be remarkably accurate. The film is directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. 12 Years a Slave premiered at the       Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013. The film is scheduled to be commercially released on October 18, 2013.

Plot

      12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., after being lured from Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release.

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"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Oct. 2013. Web. 1 Oct. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.

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