Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsSpike Lee and Jordan Peele’s BlacKkKlansman trailer is twistedly funnyThe talented duo are taking aim at white supremacy together in this crime comedyShareLink copied ✔️May 15, 2018May 15, 2018TextEbun Hargrave There’s a new Spike Lee Joint, and it looks better than She’s Gotta Have It, thank God. He’s teamed up with director Jordan Peele for his latest film, BlacKkKlansman, which received a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival with an electrified response from the audience on its first ever screening. Now, the trailer has been released. BlacKkKsman is a 70s satirical comedy based on the true story of Ron Stallsworth, the first African-American police detective to serve in the police force in Colorado Springs. Stallsworth manages to successfully infiltrate the corrupt racist systems of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter with a Jewish member of the police force Adam Driver. The film is a feature-length adaptation of a Dave Chappelle sketch that turned out to be a true story. The trailer shows the duo infiltrating klans rallies, attending Black Panther meetings, and ends on the troubling words “America First”, a phrase Trump has employed a lot as of late. Spike Lee later used a Blackkklansman press conference to vent frustrations about the president with a “foul-mouthed” self expressive rant. “We have a guy in the White House, I’m not gonna say his fucking name”, speaking on the 2017 Charlottesville protest where there were 3 tragic fatalities. “And that motherfucker did not denounce the motherfucking Klan, the alt-right, and those Nazis motherfuckers. It was a defining moment, and he could have said to the world, not just the United States, that we were better than that.” Peele, who already has one cinematic success under his belt from 2017’s racially twisted Get Out, teamed up with Spike Lee to co-create and direct a film that provokes ideas about race. Just as that film featured countless examples of racism sprinkled with blunt humorous honesty, this crime comedy is set to do the same. Blackkklansman premieres in cinemas August 10th, watch the trailer below: Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE‘Fucking Dazed’: Aidan Zamiri and Bertie Brandes on making The MomentThe President’s Cake, Iraq’s first Oscar-shortlisted feature filmSalomonWatch a mini documentary about the inner workings of SalomonDazed x MUBI Club’s next film is The Secret Agent“Wuthering Heights” united the Dazed team – because it was so badBACARDÍIn pictures: Manchester’s electrifying, multigenerational party spiritObsessive, doomed and self-destructive: The most toxic on-screen romances“Wuthering Heights” left me so coldKristen Stewart: ‘Women often operate from a place of shame’100 Nights of Hero: The story behind Julia Jackman’s lo-fi queer fantasyAkinola Davies Jr on his atmospheric debut, My Father’s ShadowThe 2026 Sundance films we can’t stop thinking aboutEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy