On Thursday, Netflix dropped a new trailer for the upcoming biographical drama film Rustin. The forthcoming film is based on the true story of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others organize the 1963 March on Washington. The film will be released in selected theatres on November 3 and on Netflix on November 17.
Directed by George C. Wolfe, from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, Rustin is bankrolled by Barack and Michelle Obama through their production company Higher Ground Productions.
Rustin features Colman Domingo as the eponymous character. The cast also comprises Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King Jr, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, among others.