Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" as Solomon Northup, a free Northern African American who was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, forced to work a Louisiana cotton plantation.
Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano and Alfre Woodard co-star in the Fox Searchlight film, opening in select theaters October 18, 2013.