Will Smith is back and on the run in the trailer for Apple TV Plus’ Emancipation - The A.V. Club

Deadline shared a trailer for the film and chatted with Fuqua about it, and while he stops short of saying that he thinks Emancipation is his best movie, he does admit that he said when he had finished that it’s his “strongest piece of work” and “certainly” his “most important” film.

Apple seems to agree with that last bit, with Fuqua telling Deadline that the company “never stopped talking about releasing the film” even after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars and even after the whole production moved from Georgia to Louisiana.

It’s not hard to see why Apple didn’t want to let distractions sideline this project after watching the trailer, which is pretty heavy and leans really hard on what seems like a very intense performance from Will Smith—who, let’s not forget, also won the Best Actor Oscar earlier this year in addition to that other thing.