In the trailer, a pulsing drumbeat establishes the stakes while Kaluuya delivers speeches as the Black Panther Party Chairman and declares, “You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution. You can murder a freedom fighter, but you can’t murder freedom.”

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Kaluuya and Stanfield worked together in 2017’s Get Out, while Ryan Coogler has established his chops in telling stories where Black people are centered with the critically-acclaimed Fruitvale Station, the Creed movies, and even MCU’s Black Panther.

Judas and the Black Messiah will be the first studio film for director Shaka King, reports the Hollywood Reporter, and is scheduled to premiere in theaters in 2021.

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Hopefully, we’ll be able to actually (and safely) enjoy movies in theatres again by then. Either way, we’ll definitely be watching this one.


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