New Images Released of Matthew McConaughey in ‘The Free State of Jones’

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Let’s be real, I got to “images of Matthew McConaughey” from STX Entertainment’s latest news on The Free State of Jones and I instantly went to the images.

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These images are released from the new Action-Drama The Free State of Jones. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and  Mahershala Ali. Here’s the official synopsis from the studio:

Written and directed by four-time Oscar nominee Gary Ross (The Hunger Games,Seabiscuit, Pleasantville), and starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, The Free State of Jones is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.

Banding together with other small farmers and with the assistance of local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones.

His marriage to a former slave, Rachel, and his subsequent establishment of a mixed race community was unique in the post-war South.

Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.

 

The Free State of Jones comes to theaters March 11, 2016.

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