Netflix released the teaser trailer and poster for Rustin on the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead) stars as gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, the man who organized the march and whose place in history has been largely overlooked since the 1963 march.
“We are committed to the cause of altering the trajectory of this country towards freedom. They either believe in freedom and justice for all – or they do not,” states Domingo as Rustin in the first teaser for the awards-season release.
Joining SAG award nominee Colman Domingo (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) are Emmy winner Chris Rock as Roy Wilkins, Emmy winner Glynn Turman as A. Philip Randolph, Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King Jr., Gus Halper, Emmy nominee CCH Pounder, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Johnny Ramey, Michael Potts, and Lilli Kay. The talented ensemble also includes Jordan-Amanda Hall, Jakeem Powell, Grantham Coleman, Jamilah Rosemond, Jules Latimer, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, and Frank Harts.
Kevin Mambo, Carra Patterson, Bill Irwin, Cotter Smith, Adrienne Warren, Emmy winner Jeffrey Wright, and six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald also star.
DGA award winner George C. Wolfe (Lackawanna Blues, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) directed from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk). Wolfe, Bruce Cohen, Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis produced, with Mark R. Wright, Alex G. Scott, David Permut, Daniel Sladek, Chris Taaffe, and Higher Ground’s Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
Three-time Grammy winner and music historian Branford Marsalis composed the score. Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz wrote “Road To Freedom” specifically for the film.
Rustin opens in select theaters on November 3, 2023. It will stream on Netflix beginning on November 17, 2023.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten.
Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.
