

The full trailer for the Aretha Franklin biopic, RESPECT, is finally out. I gotta say, in a year full of bad movies, I’m extremely about this one.
RESPECT is a portrait of Aretha Franklin’s life starring Jennifer Hudson in the starring role, alongside Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Mary J. Blige, and even Tituss Burgess. It’s directed by Liesl Tommy—the first Black woman and first woman of color to be nominated for best director at the Tony Awards—and written by Tracey Scott Wilson, a Peabody Award-winning screenwriter who previously worked on hits like The Americans.