Debuting at the 2018 BET Awards over the weekend, the film starring Amandla Stenberg, KJ Apa, Sabrina Carpenter and more, will hit big screens on October 19th, 2018.
Based on Angela Thomas’ bestselling novel of the same name, The Hate U Give centers on Starr (Stenberg), a 16-year-old girl, who grew up in a poverty-stricken area, but now attends a suburban prep school.
After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she’s torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Amandla and co-star Regina King are pictured at the 2018 BET Awards below, too.
The Riverdale star will take over Kian‘s role, after Kian was fired for derogatory remarks he made in an old video that resurfaced.
KJ will play the privileged boyfriend to Amandla Stenberg‘s Starr Carter in the film, who witnesses her best friend get murdered by a police officer.
His character “never concerned himself with the different skin color of the girlfriend he adores, and knows little about her life back home. Until she becomes the only witness in the police shooting, and becomes increasingly political as she grieves the death of her friend Khalil. It awakens him to how deeply race impacts their relationship.”
