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- Yes, and it happened in the movie almost exactly as it happened in the book. He even used his own real name, just like in the film. In the movie, Ron (John David Washington) enlists a Jewish fellow detective named Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to play Ron Stallworth when the Klansmen meet Ron in person.
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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.
In BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee tells the story of real-life cop Ron Stallworth’s infiltration of the the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
Aug 10, 2018 · BlacKkKlansman is, unbelievably, based on a true story, but how much of Spike Lee's tale of a black detective who infiltrated the KKK over the phone and had a white officer play him in person actually happened? In short, a surprisingly large amount.
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Aug 30, 2018 · Adam Driver as Flip Zimmerman and John David Washington as Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee's Blackkklansman. (Photo courtesy of Focus Features.) By Manuela Tobias August 30, 2018. Editor's note:...
Based on a true story, the first black detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white undercover officer. Not content with the battles portrayed on the screen between black civil rights groups and the Klan, Spike Lee has squared up against Donald Trump and the political state of America ...
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Sep 17, 2018 · Esquire speaks to the real Ron Stallworth, the police officer at the centre of Spike Lee's latest film BlacKkKlansman starring John David Washington, Adam Driver and Alec Baldwin.
Aug 9, 2018 · Spike Lee's new movie is based on the real experiences of Colorado cop Ron Stallworth, who walks us through what's fact and what's fiction.