Enough to compel a director to work from the public record.
But we can forget how pro-government and racially out-of-touch mainstream media outlets were back then.
Shaka King didn’t.
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What the director captures inJudas and the Black Messiahisn’t a Hollywood version of the official tale.
It’s the story of real people whose lives were forever changed by a profound betrayal.
A real auteur."
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King, 40, seems an unlikely fit for such a sober story.
He’s a creature of comedy, after all.
“It was a lot of pressure,” saysRyan Coogler, producing for the first time withJudas.
But Shaka handled it in an amazing way, and I think the film is better for it."
The director certainly won’t be regarded as just a comedy guy after Judas drops.
People will call him the real deal.
“He was like, ‘You funny.’
But I told him, ‘You’ll see.'”
