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Judas and the Black Messiah
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
2021 · Directed by Shaka King · 125 min · Drama · History · 17 frames
Tagline
You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.
Crew
- Screenplay: Shaka King, Will Berson
- Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt
- Edited by: Kristan Sprague
- Music: Craig Harris, Mark Isham
- Production design: Sam Lisenco
- Produced by: Shaka King, Ryan Coogler, Charles D. King
Cast
- Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton
- LaKeith Stanfield as Bill O'Neal
- Jesse Plemons as Roy Mitchell
- Dominique Fishback as Deborah Johnson
- Ashton Sanders as Jimmy Palmer
- Algee Smith as Jake Winters
- Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush
- Lil Rel Howery as Wayne
- Dominique Thorne as Judy Harmon
- Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover
Production
- Country: Canada, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: MACRO, Bron Studios, Participant, Proximity Media
- Budget: $26,000,000
- Box office: $6,416,063
- Themes: chicago, illinois, assassination, black panther party, based on true story, betrayal, betrayal by friend, hard, 1960s, african american history, rainbow coalition
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