First Poster And Trailer For FREE STATE OF JONES Are Here – Stars Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in the first trailer for Gary Ross’s FREE STATE OF JONES. Check it out as well as the first poster and photos from STX Entertainment’s upcoming epic action-drama.

Written and directed by four-time Oscar nominee Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville), and starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, FREE STATE OF JONES is set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.

Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones.

Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.

Written by Gary Ross, Mahershala Ali and Keri Russell also star.

FREE STATE OF JONES opens in theaters on May 13, 2016.

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Matthew McConaughey and Christopher Berry

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Matthew McConaughey (center) and Mahershala Ali (center left)

Newt (Matthew McConaughey) carries Daniel (Jacob Lofland) across an active battlefield