Thursday, March 28, 2024

Jordan Peele, Spike Lee Team for KKK Crime Thriller ‘Black Klansman’, Based on True Story

Jordan Peele (L) and Spike Lee (Getty Images)
Jordan Peele (L) and Spike Lee

*Spike Lee and Jordan Peele are teaming up to tell the true story of an African-American police officer who infiltrated the KKK.

Titled “Black Klansman,” the Focus crime thriller is in talks with Denzel Washington’s son John David Washington to play the cop, according to Variety.

The movie follows Ron Stallworth, a black detective in Colorado Springs, Colo., who in 1978 answered an ad in the local newspaper seeking new Klan members. He not only gained membership, but rose through the ranks to become the head of the local chapter.

Ron Stallworth: The KKK's first black infiltrator
Ron Stallworth holds his book “Black Klansman”

Stallworth was able to gather all sorts of intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone or via other forms of correspondence. He sent a white fellow officer in his place for any in-person meetings. During his undercover work, Stallworth managed to sabotage several of the hate group’s cross-burnings and other activities.

Lee will direct and produce with Peele, while Sean McKittrick, Shaun Redick, and Raymond Mansfield of QC Entertainment, and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions are also set as producers.

Washington currently stars on the HBO series “Ballers.”

Below, Dan Abrams interviews Ron Stallworth for “The Abrams Report”:

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