JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) And he didn't.ĭRIVER: (As Flip) But he could have, and then I would've been dead - for what? Stopping some jerk from playing dress up? And he was an ass hair away from pulling the trigger. John David Washington plays Stallworth and Adam Driver plays Flip Zimmerman, the white Jewish cop who ends up meeting with the Klan and being less than comfortable with the situation and the danger involved.ĪDAM DRIVER: (As Flip) I didn't want to say it with Trapp, but that peckerwood had a gun in my face. When they invite him in, he gets around the obvious skin tone problem by getting a white cop to stand in for him in person while he continues to deal with the Klan by phone. ![]() Ron Stallworth, an African American cop in Colorado, managed to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in 1979 by answering an ad by phone asking how to join. "BlacKkKlansman" is based on a very improbable true story. Later on, we'll visit with Paul Schrader, the writer-director whose movie "First Reformed" has him nominated for best original screenplay, the first time he's ever been nominated, even though his other screenplays include "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull." We'll start with Spike Lee whose flim "BlacKkKlansman" is nominated for, among other categories, Best Picture and Best Director, the first time Lee has competed in either of those categories. Our guests today are two Hollywood veterans who are getting some of the first major Oscar nominations of their long careers. We're continuing our series of interviews with some of this year's Oscar nominees. ![]() I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Lo and behold, two years later, American Skin premiered at the Venice Film Festival with plot lines, characters, and themes substantially similar to A Routine Stop.This is FRESH AIR. While the brothers’ screenplay did not win the competition, it was circulated to a group of industry professionals who served as judges. “In 2017, the Shaw brothers submitted their screenplay to the TV One Screenplay competition, which is a contest organized with and supported by the American Black Film Festival. The complaint reads that the themes between American Skin and A Routine Stop are “identical” and that both screenplays bare “uncanny” similarities. The film premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, touted as “A Spike Lee Presentation.” It was then released to selected theaters in January this year, as well as several streaming services, including Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Google Play, according to Deadline. ![]() “We filed this lawsuit to get back what was wrongfully taken from us.”Īmerican Skin is the story of a Black military veteran, played by Parker, seeking justice for the death of his teenage son, who was killed by police officers during a traffic stop. “We put our blood, sweat and tears into turning a tragic reality of society into a screenplay that would resonate with audiences, only to see someone else earn acclaim and profit from our work,” the Shaw brothers said. According to documents, the suit claims that Lee, who presented the 2019 film, and Parker, who wrote, directed and starred in the film, copied the themes, storyline, characters and even the logline from their 2017 screenplay.
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