{"id":8789,"date":"2013-06-30T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T02:05:27","slug":"black-nativity-the-teaser-is-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/06\/black-nativity-the-teaser-is-now-online.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Black Nativity<\/i> &#8212; the teaser is now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser3.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser3-300x125.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blacknativity-teaser3\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8792\"><\/a>Fox Searchlight has posted its first trailer for <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/black-nativity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Black Nativity<\/a><\/i>, the upcoming Kasi Lemmons adaptation of the Langston Hughes musical. As with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/04\/christmas-musical-black-nativity-releases-its-first-pictures.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">pictures<\/a> that were released two months ago, the focus here seems to be on the modern-day scenes, but we do get what appears to be a taste of the \u201cdream sequence\u201d that re-tells the story of Jesus\u2019 birth. See the trailer and a couple key images below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, the trailer itself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BLACK NATIVITY - Teaser Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tUqNmaxmco?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next, two images which \u2014 combined with the image at the top of this post \u2014 seem to come from the scene in which an angel (played by Mary J. Blige) appears to some \u201cinner-city shepherds\u201d, as <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/movies\/2013\/04\/29\/black-nativity-kasi-lemmons-jennifer-hudson-jacob-latimore-mary-j-blige\/2106871\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today<\/a><\/i> once called them. Note the curiously-dressed characters in the background of the first image, in particular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser1.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser1-1024x427.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blacknativity-teaser1\" width=\"590\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8796\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser2.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2013\/06\/blacknativity-teaser2-1024x427.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blacknativity-teaser2\" width=\"590\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8797\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film is currently set to come out November 27, i.e. the day before the American Thanksgiving, and four weeks before Christmas itself.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your first glimpse of Mary J. 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