EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros’ Judas and the Black Messiah may have been set in the late 1960s, but it could have very well taken place in 2021 as it puts a glaring spotlight on the treatment of the Black community, activism and identity.Director Shaka King co-wrote the script with Will Berson and chronicles the lives of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), who served as an FBI informant to help silence Hampton and the Black Panther Party.In the biographical drama, King and Berson bring this story to the page, using the relationship between Hampton and O’Neal as the jumping-off point.
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