BlacKkKlansman
BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It was Harry Belafonte's last feature film before his death in April 2023. Set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux Klan chapter.
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| Running time | 128 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $15 million
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| Box office | $93.4 million
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- Topher Grace spent a month researching David Duke, including reading Duke's autobiography and watching footage of him. Grace claimed that he found Duke to be even more of a racist than he had assumed, but found most frightening Duke's ability to make himself charming to an audience in spite of his racism, and that is what he wanted to come through in his performance.
- The Spanish title of the movie is "Infiltrado en el KKKlan" (Infiltrator in the KKKlan). It misspells on purpose the Spanish world "Clan" to refer Ku Klux Klan.
- John David Washington has said that the toughest time on set was filming the banquet scene. He later called Ron Stallworth to ask how he had contained himself amid such hatred when dealing with the actual KKK.
- The film is based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. Original literary source: "Black Klansman. A Memoir", book by Ron Stallworth, Policed and Fire Publishing, Spartanburg (South Carolina), 16-1-2014, ISBN: 9781936986316.
- As of 2019, this is the Best Picture Oscar nominee with the longest one-word title.
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