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Making of Judas and the Black Messiah : How Director Shaka King Created a Fred Hampton Biopic Inside a Classic 1970s Thriller
by Pamela McClintock
February 11, 2021, 7:00am PST
Those behind the drama that stars Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield were determined to tell the story of the assassinated Black Panther leader: The biggest compliment I’ve been paid is when people say, Yo, how the hell did you get to make this?
Ryan Coogler was finishing Marvel s historic
Black Panther superhero movie when a panther figure of a different kind came into his life. He and his wife, Zinzi, were having dinner in the Brooklyn backyard of filmmaker and friend Shaka King in August 2017 when King mentioned a project he wanted to direct about Fred Hampton, the famed Chicago Black Panther Party leader. In 1969, Hampton was assassinated by law enforcement with the help of petty thief William O Neal, who became a key FBI informant in
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Judas and the Black Messiah
Co-written and directed by Shaka King.
Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Lil Rey Howery, Martin Sheen, Ashton Sanders, Algee Smith, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Dominique Thorne.
SYNOPSIS:
The story of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 by a Cook County tactical unit on the orders of the FBI and Chicago Police Department.
The story central to Shaka King’s
Judas and the Black Messiah is so innately fascinating and continuously relevant that even the most aggressively mediocre hired hack would struggle to screw it up. But Shaka King (
In “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Daniel Kaluuya gives an electrifying performance that raises the hairs on the back of your neck. As Fred Hampton, the murdered chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Kaluuya is riveting as he prowls the stage inspiring his audiences. His speeches burn with intensity and conviction. When FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the Judas in the title, tells his handler Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) that Hampton “could sell salt to a slug,” it’s not hyperbole; Kaluuya makes you believe he’ll succeed in his mission to unite a “rainbow coalition” of people of all races against a common enemy. It’s stellar work that will be talked about for some time, and it buys a lot of goodwill for a film that has some serious script problems.
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