NETFLIX HAS revealed the trailer for Chadwick Boseman’s final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Boseman, who died in August aged 43, four years after being diagnosed with colon cancer, stars in the film alongside Viola Davis, who plays Ma Rainey.

An adaptation of August Wilson’s play, the film, which is set in 1920’s Chicago, follows the story of Ma Rainey who is locked into a battle of wills with her white manager and producer over control of her music.

The Black Panther star’s performance as Levee, an ambitious trumpeter, in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom has sparked talk that the beloved actor could be in line for a posthumous Oscar.

In a recent interview with Zora, Davis spoke about working with Boseman on his final film. The pair previously acted together in the 2014 James Brown biopic, Get on Up, in which Boseman played Brown.

“He was extremely tired, but there’s a lot of tired people in the business — especially people in his position,” she told the publication. “In hindsight, I noticed all the wonderful people he surrounded himself with were always praying over him and meditating over him and I thought that was part of what he demanded or [how he] created that sacred space. I didn’t know they were just trying to pour life and energy into him.”

Davis added: “He would just fall asleep standing up, but boy, when that camera rolled? You didn’t see any of it.”

The film, has been produced by Denzel Washington, who once paid for Boseman’s summer tuition and who Boseman described as “the dopest actor on the planet”.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be available to watch on Netflix from 18 December. It will also screen in selected cinemas during November.