Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer: Daniel Kaluuya Honors Fred Hampton
The heroic life of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther activist who was assassinated by the FBI at just 21 years old, is getting the silver screen treatment. On Thursday, Warner Bros. dropped the trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, a new drama based on Hampton’s revolutionary rise in the late 1960s—and his tragic downfall after being betrayed by informant William O’Neal.
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Daniel Kaluuya stars as Hampton and, per the trailer, delivers a staggeringly kinetic performance. The trailer is largely comprised of snippets of Kaluuya as Hampton delivering rousing speeches at rallies and protests. “You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution!” he shouts in one scene, a reference to the young activist’s most memorable rhetoric. Tamil News All the while, he’s being watched by O’Neal, played with anxious energy by LaKeith Stanfield. Jesse Plemons plays Roy Mitchell, the FBI agent who threatened O’Neal and got him to turn on the Black Panthers. Dominique Fishback also stars as Deborah Johnson, a fellow Black Panther and Hampton’s fiancée.