Tyler Perry’s most ambitious project comes to Netflix. The streaming giant released the trailer for The blues of a jazzman last week, a film Perry has been working on for three decades.
Set in the 1940s, the film presents a story of forbidden love and reveals secrets and lies spanning forty years. Read on to watch the trailer and find out the release date of the film.
Trailer and release date for A Jazzman’s Blues
The trailer opens with Bayou and Leanne, the two star-crossed lovers sharing a passionate kiss. “That was our first kiss. There is nothing that feels so good in my entire life. You asked me not to tell anyone, but I wanted the world to know,” says Bayou.
The images below show the couple being separated by their families due to their different social classes. From the trailer, the movie looks like the perfect combination of drama and emotions. Check out the trailer below.
A Jazzman’s Blues premieres on Netflix on Friday, September 23. You must have an active subscription to watch the movie on the streaming platform, which offers different membership plans. Before its streaming debut, the film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11.
About the movie
The official synopsis for the film reads: “A Jazzman’s Blues tells a story of forbidden love that takes place in the Deep South over 50 years, from 1937 to 1987. A sweet-tempered young musician (Joshua Boone) and a soul troubled with some secrets (Solea Pfeiffer) have an intermittent romance, woven through the narrative of a family of musicians.
The blues of a jazzman is the passion project of Tyler Perry, who wrote the film in 1995. “I wrote it in 1995. It was the first script I ever wrote. The two characters are just trying to find their own way in the world. Initially, I wanted to play the lead role of Bayou, but that was in 1995, I got old,” Perry said in an interview.
Now he hopes the film strikes a chord with the audience. “This is the first thing I wrote and I have waited a long time to do it. But it’s happening at the right time because it was meant to be done by Solea Pfeiffer and Joshua Boone, and it gave me time to grow as a director,” the writer-director said.
Blues star cast of a Jazzman
The film stars Joshua Boone and Solea Pfeiffer as the leads, Bayou and Leanne. Boone has previously appeared on Downtown Girls, MacGyver Y Law & Order: SVUwhile Pfeiffer was seen in Curb your enthusiasm, scandal Y The Good Fight.
Other cast members will include Amirah Vann, Austin Scott, Ryan Eggold, Brent Antonello, Brad Benedict, Milauna Jemai Jackson, Kario Marcel, and Rob Wood. The film was shot in Savannah, Georgia, and at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, with shooting taking place in May and June 2021.
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