Kingsley Ben-Adir embodies Bob Marley while carrying the burden of being a revolutionary musician in the new trailer for Reinaldo Marcus Green’s upcoming biopic Bob Marley: One Love. Watch it below.
At one point in the trailer, Ben-Adir shares his frustrations with Lashana Lynch, who plays Marley’s wife, Rita. “There’s a war going on. How I can bring peace? I can’t even get peace for myself,” he says. In response, she offers sage advice: “Sometimes the messenger has to become the message.”
Bob Marley: One Love centers around Marley’s early years and rise to fame, as well as the assassination attempt on his life in 1976 and subsequent live performance just two days later at the Smile Jamaica Concert.
Green penned the screenplay for the biopic with Zach Baylin, Terence Winter, and Frank E. Flowers. The film also stars James Norton, Tosin Cole, Umi Myers, Anthony Welsh, and Nia Ashi. Rita Marley, their son Ziggy, and their daughter Cedella all served as producers on the project.
Bob Marley: One Love arrives in theaters on February 14th, 2024. See where Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Exodus lands on our list of the top 50 stoner albums.
