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Full Trailer for HBO’s ‘The Sunset Limited’

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When one of the writers of No Country for Old Men writes a play and recruits Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones for the film version of said play on HBO you’d better take notice. On Saturday, February 12th HBO will debut ‘The Sunset Limited’ at 9PM EST.  Take a look at the newest trailer for an idea of the ride you’ll be in for:

A bit of background on the original play:

The historical Sunset Limited was a transcontinental train that crossed the American south from Atlantic to Pacific. Metaphorically, to ride the sunset limited is to take the mythic train west, to go to the western wall, to sail over the edge of the world. The literal train in McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited is a New York subway, but the destination of the suicidal professor White is the solitude of death, an escape from the hell of other people, from the human history of war and genocide, and from his own intractable alienation.

The Sunset Limited takes place entirely in the subway tenement apartment of the ex-con, Black, who has forcibly prevented the college professor, White, from casting himself in the path of an on-rushing subway train. Over the course of several hours, while the subway trains rumble ominously, Black keeps White a virtual prisoner in his apartment while he probes the roots of White’s suicidal depression and tries to convince him that life is worth living, that the antidote to despair is communion with God and with one’s brothers and sisters, that the Divine principle shimmers in all. Black is no stranger to the violence of human nature. He has been convicted of murder, and he was nearly murdered himself in a knife fight in prison. But lying near death he heard God speak to him in a vision, and he has lived the rest of his life in service to the thieves and junkies of his nether world, hoping to hear the voice of God again.

Will the one room, 2-man play translate to the silver screen through two veteran actors? Find out when it premieres on HBO this February 12th at 9PM.

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