Watch: 'Judas and the Black Messiah' trailer starring Daniel Kaluuya & LaKeith Stanfield.

Watch: 'Judas and the Black Messiah' trailer starring Daniel Kaluuya & LaKeith Stanfield.

Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield star in upcoming film, 'Judas and the Black Messiah', which was directed by Shaka King and depicts the events surrounding the assassination of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton by the FBI.

"In 1968, a young, charismatic activist named Fred Hampton became Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, who were fighting for freedom, the power to determine the destiny of the Black community, and an end to police brutality and the slaughter of Black people.

Chairman Fred was inspiring a generation to rise up and not back down to oppression, which put him directly in the line of fire of the government, the FBI and the Chicago Police.  But to destroy the revolution, they had to do it from both the outside…and the inside.  Facing prison, William O’Neal is offered a deal by the FBI: if he will infiltrate the Black Panthers and provide intel on Hampton, he will walk free. O’Neal takes the deal.

Now a comrade in arms in the Black Panther Party, O’Neal lives in fear that his treachery will be discovered even as he rises in the ranks.  But as Hampton’s fiery message draws him in, O’Neal cannot escape the deadly trajectory of his ultimate betrayal."

Watch the trailer below...

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