JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (2021)

OVERVIEW

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.

Cast

• Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton
• Lakeith Stanfield as William O'Neal
• Jesse Plemons as Roy Mitchell
• Dominique Fishback as Deborah Johnson
• Ashton Sanders as Larry Roberson
• Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover
• Algee Smith as Jake Winters
• Lil Rel Howery as Brian
• Jermaine Fowler as Mark Clark
• Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush
• Robert Longstreet as Special Agent Carlyle
• Dominique Thorne as Judy Harmon
• Amari Cheatom
• Caleb Eberhardt