Over long development, a shift in genre turned the Fred Hampton story into an Oscar contender. Somehow, writer-director Shaka King, the Lucas Brothers, and Will Berson wrote one movie, “Judas ...

Bringing Hampton's story directly to viewers' homes was embraced by Kenny and Keith Lucas, the "Judas and the Black Messiah" co-producers who share credit on the film's story with director Shaka ...

As Fred Hampton Character: Daniel Kaluuya stars as Fred Hampton, the Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther party. The movie shows the young man as a powerful force in the Black community ...

From left, Fred Hampton Jr., the son of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton who was killed by police in 1969, is photographed with his mother Akua Njeri on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, at the ...

Starring Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, King's film shows "Chairman Fred" as a powerful and passionate community organizer in late-1960s Chicago as the Black Panthers establish community services like ...

Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield are in talks to star in Jesus Was My Homeboy, a movie about the assassinated Black Panther activist Fred Hampton. Ryan Coogler will produce the Warner Bros ...

In September 2019, Fred Hampton Jr. gathered the cast of “Judas and the Black Messiah” in a house in Chicago to ask them each a very important question before taking on the life story of his ...

Bringing Hampton's story directly to viewers' homes was embraced by Kenny and Keith Lucas, the "Judas and the Black Messiah" co-producers who share credit on the film's story with director Shaka ...

Fred Hampton biopic has a new trailer and a new name: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ The upcoming film about the slain Chicago Black Panthers leader initially was titled ‘Jesus Was My Homeboy.’ ...

Studios didn’t exactly jump at the chance to make a movie about the late Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton. “It knocked me on my ass,” admits Shaka King, the co-writer and director of ...

Aside from this movie news, his film, Black Panther, is nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Even more exciting, he and his wife, Zinzi Evans, just announced they are expecting their ...