The Good Lord Bird is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, August 9 at 10 p.m. EST.
Showtime has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming limited series adaptation of The Good Lord Bird developed by and starring Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) as controversial abolitionist John Brown.
The series is executive produced by Jason Blum, Ethan & Ryan Hawke, Mark Richard, Padraic McKinley, Jeremy Gold, Marci Wiseman, Albert Hughes, James McBride, Brian Taylor, Marshall Persinger and David Schiff.
Brown’s raid failed to initiate the slave revolt he intended, but was the event that started the Civil War.