A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY CAST TRIAL

Actor Daniel Kaluuya, who played Hampton, won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The same year, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah featured the story of Fred Hampton, Black Panther’s Chicago Chapter’s leader, focusing on events leading up to his assassination.

A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY CAST TRIAL

Earlier in 2020, Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of Chicago 7 featured Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as party co-founder Bobby Seale. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform. The main cast consists of Marlon Brando, Jim Brown and Roger Guenveur Smith.

This is the third film in recent times to bring leaders from the Black Panther Party in limelight through their live-action portrayals. Newton Story is a 86 minute biography / documentary from 2001, directed by Spike Lee. Television, who have also worked together for the Emmy Award-winning show, Ted Lasso, and will soon work again on Shrinking starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segel. In film, Smith has had a successful collaboration with. The limited series will also become a collaboration between Apple TV+ and Warner Bros. Smith received an Obie Award for his signature solo performance in A Huey P. Both Bearman and Hecht will also serve as executive producers for the show. That article became the basis of the screenplay of the 2012 Best Picture winner film, Argo, which won Chris Terrio the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Bearman is also known for writing the 2007 Wired article, 'Escape from Tehran: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Iran”. Smiths 1997 one-man Off Broadway show, based on Newtons own words, into a highly charged docudrama. The series’ screenplay will be penned by Jim Hecht, which will be adapted from the 2013 Playboy article “ The Big Cigar: How a Hollywood producer smuggled Huey Newton to Cuba”, which was written by Joshua Bearman.

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