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Character posters of John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier for Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’

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Focus Features has dropped a trio of character posters (plus another official poster) for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman.

In the film, based on a true story, John David Washington plays Ron Stallworth, the first black officer hired to the Colorado Springs, CO police force in 1979 and who successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter. Initially, he deceives the klan on the phone using a ‘white’ voice but when it comes time to meet he enlists his partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to be the (white) face in their Cyrano de Bergerac sting operation. Laura Harrier plays civil rights activist Patrice Dumas, whom Ron strikes up a relationship that both personal and professional.

BlacKkKlansman premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize. In my review I called it “a vital piece of Americana, an incendiary work and his best film in over a decade.” It’s also currently #1 in my Oscar predictions for Best Picture and Best Director.

The film is directed by Spike Lee, produced by Monkeypaw’s Jordan Peele, Spike Lee, and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. It is written by Charlie Watchel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee from the book by Ron Stallworth. It co-stars Topher Grace, Ryan Eggold, Alec Baldwin, Corey Hawkins, Robert John Burke, Paul Walter Hauser and Harry Belafonte.

Focus Features will unveil BlacKkKlansman in limited release on August 10th and wide on August 17th. Check out the new posters below.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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