{"id":250503,"date":"2026-11-15T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-felas-gentleman-soundtracks-the-thomas-crown-affair-trailer\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:30:16","slug":"nigeria-felas-gentleman-soundtracks-the-thomas-crown-affair-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-felas-gentleman-soundtracks-the-thomas-crown-affair-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fela&#8217;s &#8216;Gentleman&#8217; Soundtracks &#8216;The Thomas Crown Affair&#8217; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The 1973 Afrobeat classic features in the trailer for Michael B. Jordan&#8217;s forthcoming Hollywood heist thriller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">More than five decades after Fela Anikulapo-Kuti released &#8220;Gentleman&#8221;, the Afrobeat legend&#8217;s music has found its way into another international production, with the classic track featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming Hollywood film, &#8220;The Thomas Crown Affair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Amazon MGM Studios unveiled the official trailer on its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DfpHJRyDLcb\/?mdxt=bmpodGk2YnB2NDlo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram page<\/a><\/strong> on Thursday, featuring the song in the upcoming heist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1973 Afrobeat classic features in the trailer for Michael B. Jordan&#8217;s forthcoming Hollywood heist thriller. More than five decades after Fela Anikulapo-Kuti released &#8220;Gentleman&#8221;, the Afrobeat legend&#8217;s music has found its way into another international production, with the classic track featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming Hollywood film, &#8220;The Thomas Crown Affair.&#8221; Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[9460,258,256,15766,44058,36779,257,4687,393,55853,254,6769,23199],"class_list":["post-250503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-affair","tag-africa","tag-crown","tag-felas","tag-gentleman","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-soundtracks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thomas","tag-trailer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}