0Shares Hollywood’s relationship with the Black Panther Party is about as graceful and nuanced as the general public’s, and that’s certainly no accident. Though plenty of documentaries have taken great pains to accurately outline the Panthers’ roots, including the more recent Vanguard of the Revolution from Stanley Nelson, attempts at fictionalizing the once far-reaching, Oakland-based movement have ranged from being punchlines in Forrest Gump to pitiable victims in last year’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. And this is mainly because storytellers generally don’t have a clue how audiences will react to a film that presents outspoken, militant, American socialists as underdog protagonists, which is sort of the point in Shaka King’s new biographical drama,