Less than a week ago, we got our first look at Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Where that promo featured some voice-over sentiment from Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, this full length trailer shows some more substantial footage from the film.

Rather than a weeping biopic, this trailer seems to present the film as more of a thriller or an origin story to a hero. Chartering Mandela’s rise as an anti-apartheid leader to his eventual imprisonment, Chadwick’s film will run the course of Mandela’s entire lifetime. As for how Elba’s performance will be received, it’s a year of heavy competition so he’d really have to knock it out of the park to be a strong contender in the Best Actor category.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is directed by Justin Chadwick and stars Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Mark Edlerkin, Robert Hobbs, Grant Swanby and Theo Landey.It opens in the US on November 29.

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