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But along the way, he realized the driving force behind his film wasn’t the crime element, but Hampton himself and the slain activist’s “radical,” “brilliant” and revolutionary ideas.“The story came to me via (writers) the Lucas Brothers, who told me that they wanted to make a movie about Fred Hampton and William O’Neal that they envisioned as ‘The Departed’ set inside the world of (the FBI’s counterintelligence program),” King said.
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