‘BlacKkKlansman’ First Look: Spike Lee Infiltrates the Kkk With Adam Driver and John David Washington

Focus Features stirred up buzz for Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” at CinemaCon last week, and now the indie studio has debuted the first official look at the 1970s-set drama.

“BlacKkKlansman” tells the true story of an African-American detective who infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs and became one of its leaders.The first look photo above highlights the film’s two leads, John David Washington and Adam Driver.

Washington, son of actor Denzel Washington, is best known for his role on HBO’s “Ballers” and has a supporting turn in David Lowery’s upcoming “The Old Man and the Gun.”“The most outrageous part [about the film] is that it’s factual, that this happened,” Washington tells Entertainment Weekly about the movie.

That’s why it’s so…everything in it, you’ll see, how extreme and eye-opening and surprising the events that happened are, but what tops it off [for] me,

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