That was announced today Judas and the Black Messiah will debut later this month at the Sundance Film Festival and Warner Bros. celebrates the news with a new trailer for Shaka King’s anticipated (and incendiary) new drama. Our first glimpse swirled around Daniel Kaluuya’s livewire take on the film’s subject matter, Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, and this latest clip broadens his world, which plagues the complexity at the heart of Hampton’s call for revolution.
Lakeith Stanfield plays William O’Neal, a career thief who infiltrates the group on the orders of Jesse Plemons’ FBI agent, who, along with his boss, J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen), hopes to “prevent a B from popping uplack of messiah. What follows is, according to a synopsis, a ‘battle’ for O’Neal’s soul, with Hampton’s soul-moving pierce message O’Neal’s own sense of self-preservation.
Watch the new trailer below:
Judas and the Black Messiah, King’s debut film, will premiere in theaters and on HBO Max on February 12 following his Sundance debut.