Made 25 years ago, this movie with the Oscar-winning actor was never released, but it’s finally resurfaced!

23 years ago today, Mahershala Ali — now the winner of two Oscars (Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight in 2017 and Green Book in 2019) — landed his first lead role in Taste the Revolution, a mockumentary directed by writer-director Dan Klein. Produced by Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, who also stars in the film, the feature film was never released theatrically, but has resurfaced today.

Taste the revolution will definitely be presented at the festival on October 19 New Orleans Film FestivalAnd finally the trailer of the movie was revealed.

It stars a very young Mahershala Ali as revolutionary leader Mac Laszlo, who leads a global summit that attracts a wide range of young people who want to change the world and have fun. Two filmmakers follow him to make a documentary.

Why was this movie never released?

shooting of Taste the revolution It was completed in 2001, but after the 9/11 attacks, the cultural and political climate changed dramatically, making the film’s release irrelevant. Dan Klein’s feature film as a satire of the revolutionary movement, the producers felt that the post-9/11 context was not conducive to airing such a film, leading to its being shelved.

So Taste the Revolution was shelved for almost 25 years and only recently was the footage found and edited to make the film as originally planned.

about movie site Director Dan Klein explains: “Peu After filming ended, 9/11 really changed the world and our film immediately seemed disconnected, so we decided to bury it. Fifteen years later, Mahershala Ali won his first Oscar for Moonlight and two years later his second for Green Book. I shared the clip of the film with him and he immediately called me, asking me to finish the film.

Mahershala Ali called me and asked me to finish the film

When we looked back at the images, we realized they were even more relevant twenty years later. The themes remained accessible and, unfortunately, familiar. Additionally, the film was remarkably prescient, seeming to anticipate many specific events and movements that occurred in the interim, everything from Shepard Fair’s Obama poster (and Obama himself) to Occupy Wall Street, the Fyre Festival, and many other cultural references. .”

The film is more relevant than ever

The director adds: “Perhaps the film will be sadly still relevant, given that so many young people go through a stage in life where they have little time and passion, but lack the perspective or intuition to fully understand the nuances of their causes.” champion.”

Thanks to the New Orleans Film Festival, the public will finally be able to discover this project, which has remained in the shadows for a long time. It is not yet known if Taste the Revolution will be released in cinemas. This is the two-time Oscar winner’s first major film role Mahershala Ali. The latter has already appeared on the screen in the series, where he played Dr. Trey Saunders.

The actor, now 50, will star in Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Rebirth from July 2, 2025, and is set to share a poster with Tom Hardy in Tom Hardy’s thriller 77 Blackout. He has been linked for several years to the Marvel film Blade, in which he will reprise the role previously played by Wesley Snipes. After several directorial changes, filming is expected to begin in the UK later this year. Blade hits theaters on November 5, 2025.