CAPTION: Pictured, Jeffrey Wright, on set of the film, BLACKOUT, premiering on BET Friday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT starring Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Saldana, Melvin Van Peebles, and LaTanya Richardson-Jackson. Photo courtesy BET Networks. (PRNewsFoto/BET Networks)
A massive power outage sets off a chain reaction of frustration, violence and despair in an inner city neighborhood when BET world premieres BLACKOUT, a riveting new drama inspired by actual events, on Friday, February 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, “Angels in America”), NAACP Image® Award nominee Zoe Saldana (Guess Who, Vantage Point), pioneering filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song), and veteran actress LaTanya Richardson-Jackson (The Fighting Temptations, Freedomland ), BLACKOUT recounts the devastating events of two days and a night in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a simmering African American enclave forgotten in the midst of the largest power failure in American history.
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