Aside from being well-made and effective as a movie, Warner Bros.’ “Judas and the Black Messiah” has a goal: to counter decades of government lies about the Black Panther Party.
The party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, and ceased operations in 1982. The film, which started streaming Feb. 12, centers on the 1969 murder of Bpp leader Fred Hampton and his betrayal by colleague (and FBI informant) William O’Neal.
“Judas,” directed by Shaka King, who wrote the script with Will Berson, from a story by Keith Lucas and Kenneth Lucas, is a contender in the Oscar races.
King had been interested in a project about Hampton, and found out Berson had already written a script; they worked together to merge their two approaches.
King tells Variety, “CoIntelPro was out to destroy the Black Panther party and the radical left. This is an opportunity to shed light on an important topic,...
The party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, and ceased operations in 1982. The film, which started streaming Feb. 12, centers on the 1969 murder of Bpp leader Fred Hampton and his betrayal by colleague (and FBI informant) William O’Neal.
“Judas,” directed by Shaka King, who wrote the script with Will Berson, from a story by Keith Lucas and Kenneth Lucas, is a contender in the Oscar races.
King had been interested in a project about Hampton, and found out Berson had already written a script; they worked together to merge their two approaches.
King tells Variety, “CoIntelPro was out to destroy the Black Panther party and the radical left. This is an opportunity to shed light on an important topic,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party Fred Hampton was a stirring orator, firing hearts and minds out of slumber and into action against US capitalism. So clear and infectious was Hampton’s guidance against the country’s racist and classist economic system that the FBI and Chicago police department assassinated the 21-year-old as he slept. In documentaries like The Murder of Fred Hampton, which don’t circulate enough, Hampton is seen delivering his famous speeches at rallies, casually moving fellow Panthers with his warmth in a mock trial at the headquarters, mingling at the Free Breakfast for School Children Program and […]
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/17/2021
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party Fred Hampton was a stirring orator, firing hearts and minds out of slumber and into action against US capitalism. So clear and infectious was Hampton’s guidance against the country’s racist and classist economic system that the FBI and Chicago police department assassinated the 21-year-old as he slept. In documentaries like The Murder of Fred Hampton, which don’t circulate enough, Hampton is seen delivering his famous speeches at rallies, casually moving fellow Panthers with his warmth in a mock trial at the headquarters, mingling at the Free Breakfast for School Children Program and […]
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/17/2021
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It’s always a monumental task to deliver an American Civil Rights movie, but when it’s done right it’s a safe bet that you’re onto a damn good thing. That’s exactly what we get with Judas and the Black Messiah, without quite reaching the spectacular.
Receiving high praise at the recent Sundance Festival, it was singled out for its acting, direction and timely themes. Quite right, too, although you can’t help wondering if the latter held it back just a little.
But more of that later. Set in late-60s Chicago, here we have the story of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), Chairman of the Black Panther Party, and fellow comrade William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), who led a double-life as an FBI informant.
Kaluuya received a Golden Globe best supporting nod, and it’s easy to see why. Playing Hampton with the firebrand energy that was a trademark of such figureheads,...
Receiving high praise at the recent Sundance Festival, it was singled out for its acting, direction and timely themes. Quite right, too, although you can’t help wondering if the latter held it back just a little.
But more of that later. Set in late-60s Chicago, here we have the story of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), Chairman of the Black Panther Party, and fellow comrade William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), who led a double-life as an FBI informant.
Kaluuya received a Golden Globe best supporting nod, and it’s easy to see why. Playing Hampton with the firebrand energy that was a trademark of such figureheads,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
This Friday (September 15), The Metroraph in New York City and the UCLA Film And Television Archive team up for what is bound to be one of 2017’s great repertory film series.
As part of their mission statement if you will, the UCLA Film And Television Archive strives to bring back to life some of cinema’s great forgotten masterworks. Be it social activist documentaries from the Civil Rights era or long lost silent masterpieces, the group’s Festival Of Preservation is a bi-annual series and subsequent national tour of new restorations spanning the history of film. With past festivals include titles as wide ranging as Too Late For Tears and God’s Little Acre, these series are some truly exciting restorations and the perfect way to discover your new favorite film.
After a run in La earlier this year, the series is now set to hit The Big Apple this week,...
As part of their mission statement if you will, the UCLA Film And Television Archive strives to bring back to life some of cinema’s great forgotten masterworks. Be it social activist documentaries from the Civil Rights era or long lost silent masterpieces, the group’s Festival Of Preservation is a bi-annual series and subsequent national tour of new restorations spanning the history of film. With past festivals include titles as wide ranging as Too Late For Tears and God’s Little Acre, these series are some truly exciting restorations and the perfect way to discover your new favorite film.
After a run in La earlier this year, the series is now set to hit The Big Apple this week,...
- 9/15/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Mike Gray, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The China Syndrome about a nuclear power plant disaster cover-up, has died. Gray passed away Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his family told the Los Angeles Times. He was 77. Gray developed the China Syndrome screenplay after researching the dangers of nuclear power. It turns out the timing was uncanny. Just three weeks after the opening of the film starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania went into partial meltdown. “I meant China Syndrome to educate people about what I’d found … that our heavy reliance on nuclear plants hadn’t been clearly thought through,” Gray told the Chicago Tribune in 1998. Gray co-wrote the script with T.S. Cook and James Bridges. Gray also collaborated with Chicago’s Second City comedy group founder Howard Alk on several documentary films, including...
- 5/3/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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