{"id":437094,"date":"2026-02-21T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:34:13","slug":"trailer-aleshea-harris-revenge-film-is-god-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437094\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer: Aleshea Harris&#8217; Revenge Film &#8220;Is God Is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trailer-revenge-tale-is-god-is.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios, Orion Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trailer-revenge-tale-is-god-is.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"trailer-revenge-tale-is-god-is\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios, Orion Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, MGM Studios, and Orion Pictures have premiered the trailer for \u201cIs God Is,\u201d a new film adaptation of playwright-turned-filmmaker Aleshea Harris\u2019 own 2018 play \u201cIs God Is\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kara Young and Mallori Johnson lead as the twin sisters at the center of the story, one with disfiguring burn scars.  The pair are ordered by their bedridden mother to kill their abusive father, who caused all their scars in a deliberately set fire years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The girls must decide whether to seek vengeance or find mercy, meeting a host of colourful characters along the way before they take on their father, \u2018The Monster\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Also starring are Vivica A. Fox as the pair\u2019s mother, Erika Alexander as a preacher, Mykelti Williamson as a shady lawyer, Janelle Mon\u00e1e as the new wife of the girl\u2019s father and Sterling K. Brown as the father.<\/p>\n<p>The original play received 3 Obie Awards and the American Playwriting Foundation\u2019s Relentless Award.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Thompson, Kishori Rajan, Riva Marker, Janicza Bravo, and Harris produces the film which opens in cinemas May 15th.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios, Orion Pictures Amazon, MGM Studios, and Orion Pictures have premiered the trailer for \u201cIs God&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-437094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}