{"id":81272,"date":"2017-10-31T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/10\/31\/corey-hawkins-play-civil-rights-activist-stokely-carmichael-spike-lees-black-klansman\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:20:32","slug":"corey-hawkins-play-civil-rights-activist-stokely-carmichael-spike-lees-black-klansman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/corey-hawkins-play-civil-rights-activist-stokely-carmichael-spike-lees-black-klansman\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#8217;s Black Klansman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#8217;s Black Klansman<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>October 31, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/corey-hawkins-joins-spike-lees-black-klansman-1053231\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Corey-Hawkins-and-Spike-Lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-103850\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 218'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Corey-Hawkins-and-Spike-Lee-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/corey-hawkins-joins-spike-lees-black-klansman-1053231\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has reported that <strong>Corey Hawkins<\/strong> has cast as civil rights activist\u00a0<strong>Stokely Carmichael (aka\u00a0Kwame Ture)<\/strong> in <strong>Spike Lee\u2019s<\/strong> upcoming film, <strong>Black Klansman for Focus Features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He joins Emmy Award nominee <strong>Adam Driver<\/strong> (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Inside Llewyn Davis) and<strong> Laura Harrier<\/strong> (Spider-Man: Homecoming). The film is adapted from <strong>Ron Stallworth<\/strong>\u2019s powerful, stranger-than-fiction eponymous autobiography.\u00a0 Driver and Harrier join the already announced<strong> John David Washington<\/strong> as Stallworth.\u00a0 Focus chairman Peter Kujawski made the announcement today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Adam-Driver-Laura-Harrier-and-John-David-Washington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-103732\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Adam-Driver-Laura-Harrier-and-John-David-Washington-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with Academy Award winning director Spike Lee, the film\u2019s screenplay is written by <strong>Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Spike Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin Willmont<\/strong>.\u00a0 The movie will be produced by the team behind the critically-acclaimed box office smash Get Out \u2013 QC Entertainment, Blumhouse Productions and Monkeypaw Productions.<\/p>\n<p>Black Klansman\u00a0is the story of one man who dared to challenge the Ku Klux Klan and thwart its attempts to take over the city. \u00a0Police Detective Ron Stallworth (Washington) was at the center of an undercover investigation that reached the heights of the organization. Stallworth miraculously gained status in their ranks \u2013\u00a0the shocking fact in this incredible story is Stallworth is an African American man.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Stokely-Carmichael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-103854\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 169'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Stokely-Carmichael-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Original Caption) Stokely Carmichael speaking. Photograph, 1970.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the book in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/speed-read-a-black-cop-infiltrates-the-kkk\">The Daily Beast <\/a>covered, <strong>&#8220;Stokely Carmichael, the honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party, was coming to town, so the police department had its only black officer, Stallworth, go undercover to discover what kind of trouble Carmichael had planned. Ironically, Stallworth found himself caught up in Carmichael\u2019s speech and ending up cheering at various points.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black Klansman is being produced by<strong> Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Jason Blum, Jordan Peele<\/strong> and <strong>Spike Lee<\/strong>.\u00a0 QC\u2019s <strong>Edward H. Hamm Jr.<\/strong> will serve as Executive Producer.\u00a0 Focus President of Production Josh McLaughlin will supervise the project for the company. QC Entertainment have been developing the screenplay and project over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, last seen in\u00a0<strong>Kong: Skull Island<\/strong> with Samuel L. Jackson, is best known for playing Dr.\u00a0Dre\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Straight Outta Compton,<\/strong> He also starred in the TV reboot <strong>24: Legacy<\/strong> and\u00a0was recently nominated for a Tony for his work in the play\u00a0<strong>Six Degrees of Separation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#8217;s Black KlansmanPosted by Wilson Morales October 31, 2017 Source: THR The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Corey Hawkins has cast as civil rights activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael (aka\u00a0Kwame Ture) in Spike Lee\u2019s upcoming film, Black Klansman for Focus Features. He joins Emmy Award nominee Adam Driver [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/corey-hawkins-play-civil-rights-activist-stokely-carmichael-spike-lees-black-klansman\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":81369,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,143],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-read"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#039;s Black Klansman - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/corey-hawkins-play-civil-rights-activist-stokely-carmichael-spike-lees-black-klansman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#039;s Black Klansman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Corey Hawkins To Play Civil Rights Activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael In Spike Lee&#8217;s Black KlansmanPosted by Wilson Morales October 31, 2017 Source: THR The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Corey Hawkins has cast as civil rights activist\u00a0Stokely Carmichael (aka\u00a0Kwame Ture) in Spike Lee\u2019s upcoming film, Black Klansman for Focus Features. 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