See You Yesterday
Netflix exhaust theSee You Yesterdaytrailer . Produced by Spike Lee , the science fiction escapade celluloid incorporates theBlack hold out Mattermovement for a story about fate and mob . See You Yesterdaymarks the directorial debut of Stefon Bristol , Lee ’s protege from NYU ’s Graduate Film program .
Co - written by Bristol and Fredrica Bailey , See You Yesterdayfollows high schooltime booster Claudette “ C.J. ” Walker ( Eden Duncan - Smith ) and Sebastian J. Thomas ( Dante Crichlow ) . The two science prodigy make up backpacks that provide for clip travel , and they decide to test out their engineering science after C.J. ’s quondam blood brother Calvin ( Brian “ Stro ” Bradley ) is killed during a confrontation with the constabulary . Netflix describesSee You Yesterdayas “ a sci - fi escapade grounded in familial honey , cultural water parting and the worldwide impulse to deepen the wrongs of the past . ” The follow performers are list as the film ’s co - stars : Marsha Stephanie Blake , Johnathan Nieves , Wavyy Jonez , Myra Lucretia Taylor , and Ron Bobb Semple . Last December , Netflix first acquiredSee You Yesterday , which is based on Bristol and Bailey ’s 2017 short film of the same name .
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On YouTube , NetflixreleasedSee You Yesterday’strailer . The clip start with a record phonograph needle drop and R&B groove , as the young protagonists grow their innovative backpacks and discuss which colleges they ’d like to attend . The trailer intercuts scientific and domesticated discussion with street visuals , thus establishing a sense of environment . This precedes the unlawful slaying of C.J. ’s 19 - year - sure-enough brother , an inciting incident that instigate the young little girl to “ go back and fix it . ” From there , a vivid names the aforementioned Lee as the manufacturer ofSee You Yesterday , and the narrative tone picks up as C.J. and Sebastian formulate a plan for their time travel adventure . The characters admit their lack of control over Calvin ’s tragic destruction , but they at long last decide to try out to see what ’s possible . By the poke ’s end , the case approach their maximal turn of “ jump , ” and manage to warn Calvin about his impending decease . Check out theSee You Yesterdaytrailer and poster below .
Now 62 - years - quondam , Lee continues to strengthen his legacy as an iconic film maker . Thirty year ago , Lee ’s third featureDo the properly Thingoffered a fresh take on the black experience in America , and he later pull in an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay . Twenty - five years later , Lee once again address inner city life with the musical crime dramaChi - Raq , a comment on the gang violence that afflicts Chicago ’s south side neighborhood . Most of late , Lee directed the 2018 biographical dramaBlacKkKlansman , which details the true tale of Ron Stallworth , a black police police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan . Produced for $ 15 million , BlacKkKlansmanmade over $ 92 million at the box office , and Lee won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay .
Lee is mostly known as a film director , but he ’s also a prolific producer . By chronicling his own experiences , along with diachronic outcome and timely effect that pour forth sparkle on the black experience , Lee has established himself as one of the most powerful cinematic teller . WithSee You Yesterday , Bristol now has a chance to shine , and to severalise a familiar story with an original twist .
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See You Yesterdaywill launch globally on Netflix May 17th .
Source : Netflix
