Focus Features themselves must not think BlacKkKlansman will be much of an awards season player if they’re releasing it in August.
BlacKkKlansman marks Lee’s first theatrically released fiction film since Chi-Raq, which received mixed reviews when it came out in 2015.
Spike Lee’s true life drama BlacKkKlansman, starring John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier, has received a summer release date from Focus Features.
BlacKkKlansman tells the true story of Stallworth (Washington), who began as Colorado Springs’s first African-American police officer, then later rose to the rank of detective.