Directed by four-time Oscar nominee Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit, PleasantviIIe), and starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, Free State of Jones is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and teIIs the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebeIlion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other smaII farmers and local sIaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggIe into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelIing, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War. |