The heroic life of Fred Hampton—and his tragic downfall after being betrayed—is coming to the silver screen
The heroic life of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther activist who was assassinated by the FBI at just 21 years old, is getting the silver screen treatment. On Thursday, Warner Bros. dropped the trailer for, a new drama based on Hampton’s revolutionary rise in the late 1960s—and his tragic downfall after being betrayed by informant William O’Neal.stars as Hampton and, per the trailer, delivers a staggeringly kinetic performance.
The trailer is largely comprised of snippets of Kaluuya as Hampton delivering rousing speeches at rallies and protests. “You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution!” he shouts in one scene, a reference to the young activist’s most memorable rhetoric. All the while, he’s being watched by O’Neal, played with anxious energy byplays Roy Mitchell, the FBI agent who threatened O’Neal and got him to turn on the Black Panthers.
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