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Spike Lee ’s true - life dramaBlack Klansmanhas added Adam Driver and Laura Harrier to its mold . The film is being produce by QC Entertainment , Blumhouse Productions and Monkeypaw Productions , the team behind this year ’s smash - hit horror / thrillerGet Out .
Black Klansmantells the story of Ron Stallworth ( John David Washington ) , an African - American constabulary detective who in the ' 70s penetrate the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs , CO and improbably stand up inside the organisation ’s ranks , briefly becoming the bodyguard of KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and afterward being asked to serve as head of the Colorado Springs chapter . Charlie Wachtel , David Rabinowitz , Spike Lee , and Kevin Willmont wrote the handwriting base on Stallworth ’s own book about his incredible experience .
Focus Features has herald that Driver and Harrier will join Washington in the cast ofBlack Klansman . Driver will play an surreptitious Colorado Springs police ship’s officer who is identify as being " anti - social " but brave and dedicated . Details of Harrier ’s character have not been revealed yet .
equipment driver will next be seen reprising his role as the mystical Kylo Ren , who may presently flip over from villain to hero sandwich , in the sure - blockbusterStar war : The Last Jedi . In August , he played the tardily - talking one - armed track robber Clyde Logan in Steven Soderbergh ’s rural armed robbery comedyLogan Lucky . Driver won acclaim in 2016 for his substantiate role in Martin Scorsese ’s period filmSilence , and for his lead office in Jim Jarmusch ’s dramaPaterson . Driver has been Emmy - name three time for play Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy seriesGirls . In 2018 , Driver will star alongside Jonathan Pryce in Terry Gilliam ’s oft - delayedThe Man Who kill Don Quixote . He ’s also go under to play quadruple - amputee warfare veteran Travis Mills inTough As They Comefrom director Sylvester Stallone .
Harrier has risen through the acting ranks after starting out in the daytime soap operaOne Life to Live . In 2017 , she score her time out - out role as Liz in the summertime blockbusterSpider - Man : Homecoming . Next class , she ’ll appear alongside Michael Shannon and Michael B. Jordan in HBO ’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury ’s dystopian science - fiction classicFahrenheit 451 .
Sean McKittrick , Raymond Mansfield , Shaun Redick , Jason Blum , Jordan Peele , and Spike Lee are producingBlack Klansman , with QC Entertainment ’s Edward H. Hamm Jr. serving as executive producer . The picture show present Lee ’s first fictional feature plastic film since his typically controversial 2015 movieChi - Raq . Lee ’s future also includes a television version of his debut feature filmShe ’s Got ta Have It , which is set up to run on Netflix .
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