Justice is served in “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” trailer starring David Oyelowo
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves tells the story of the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi, with David Oyelowo stepping into Reeves' spurs.
In the newly released full trailer for the series, executive-produced by Oyelowo and Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan, Reeves rides again before officially saddling up Nov. 5 on Paramount+.
"Growing up in Texas, I heard a lot of stories about Bass Reeves," series creator and showrunner Chad Feehan said in a statement accompanying the new promo. "They were always akin to a dime novel hero with incredibly fanciful flourishes of a gunslinging lawman pursuing the most-hardened outlaws in the Wild West. Somewhere in my childhood that myth of Bass took firm root in my consciousness and never left."
Feehan recalled having dinner with Oyelowo, who had been working for a better part of a decade to tell Reeves' story, and being inspired to join him on that journey.
"Our story explores the lawman, the husband, the father," Feehan said. "It begins with enslavement and carries through Reconstruction to the first cruel whispers of Jim Crow; it contains some of the well-known tales, some of the untold tales and a fair share of fictional tales that fill-in the in-between."
The cast of Bass Reeves includes Dennis Quaid as fellow U.S. Deputy Marshal Sherrill Lynn; Lauren E. Banks as Reeves' wife, Jennie; Demi Singleton as his daughter, Sally; Barry Pepper as Esau Pierce, leader of the 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles; Forrest Goodluck as Billy Crow, a young Cherokee man with an affinity for dime store books and gaudy style; and Donald Sutherland as Judge Isaac Parker, who first recruited Reeves as a marshal.
Lauren Smith/Paramount+ David Oyelowo on 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves'
Oyelowo previously told EW, "My goal, my hope, my ambition for this has always been to have an opportunity to contextualize the contribution of Black people to this country in a way that colors outside of the lines of what we have normally seen."
He continued, "I really hope that, especially as we get so many slave narratives in this period, this is one of empowerment — literally — this man is empowered, and he takes that power and he uses it for the good of his community and his country. And that's really what I hope people are left with at the end of the show."
Watch the new trailer above.
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