{"id":45665,"date":"2016-05-10T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=45665"},"modified":"2016-07-06T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T01:45:15","slug":"watch-the-first-trailer-for-queen-of-katwe-starring-selmas-david-oyelowo-as-a-chess-teaching-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/05\/watch-the-first-trailer-for-queen-of-katwe-starring-selmas-david-oyelowo-as-a-chess-teaching-missionary.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The first trailer for Queen of Katwe<\/i>, starring Selma<\/i>\u2019s David Oyelowo as a chess-teaching missionary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Today Disney released the first trailer for Queen of Katwe<\/a><\/i>, which tells the true story of a poor girl from Uganda who becomes an internationally-recognized chess prodigy after she is introduced to the game by a soccer player turned missionary.<\/p>\n

The missionary in question is Robert Katende<\/a>, who runs the Kampala office for Sports Outreach<\/a>, an evangelical ministry based in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is played in the film by David Oyelowo, who has talked quite openly about his own faith in connection with films like Selma<\/a><\/i>, in which he played Martin Luther King Jr., and Captive<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

The chess-playing girl at the centre of the film is Phiona Mutesi, played by newcomer Madina Nalwanga; and her mother is played by Lupita Nyong\u2019o, who won an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave<\/a><\/i> and can currently be heard, though not seen, in the Star Wars<\/a><\/i> movies and the \u201clive-action\u201d version of The Jungle Book<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here is the trailer for the film, which is directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding<\/i>):<\/p>\n