David Banner in his new film
Long time rap artist David Banner has been making moves within the film industry over the past few years. His most recent high profile gig was playing the father of ‘Butler‘ Forest Whitaker in the new Lee Daniels film.. Banner has come a long way since his movie debut in Black Snake Moan. Now He’s doing a new venture called Walking w/ the Gods.
Not one to sit back to wait and beg for opportunities, Banner has long talked about doing his own projects and true to his word, he launched the 2M1 Movement which is designed to allow Black people to control movies, music and content. As he recently noted ‘We are more than just characters in a video game‘ .
Banners first project was an independent album called Sex, Drugs and Video Games. It featured everyone from Asap Rocky to Lil Wayne and Bun B to name a few. Banner’s first single off the album was a cut called Malcolm X A Song to Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDWcyDFPnqk
Banner used proceeds from that album to fund the 2m1 Movement along with a kick starter campaign to launch his second project, an ambitious short film series called Walking w/ the Gods. Here Banner flips the scrip and taps into African Mythology to tell the story of a super hero named Aket Heru.
Aket is the son of a king who is cursed after his father bypasses his older brother to install him as King upon his death. The older brother named Liel invokes evil spirit named Setus which causes chaos, erases Aket’s memory and forces him to travel through time seeking to quell the inner chaos, find himself and realize his Godly powers. This only comes about when Aket achieves inner balance and truly believes his powers within.
In the short film Aket is in the 21 st century living happily with his girlfriend Lisa when chaos from the evil spirit Setus impact him and that’s when the battle to find inner peace begins..
Banner does a good job for his first indie adventure. It was good to see him move away from simple, low hanging gangsta style ratchet story lines that could easily attract millions. Here Banner attempts to challenges us.. Below are the first couple of installments.
Walking w/ the Gods pt1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0Omz1ff4E
Walking w/ the Gods pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LovyrGsLXtQ
Walking w/ the Gods pt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoXV102vn1I
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This is such a beautiful concept! We all need to really show our love for what David Banner is doing here. I like these film shorts that are posted. He did a really good job! The fact that this brother uses traditional African history and mythology to tell a modern day story is fabulous! Much respect to David Banner for doing this! It is REALLY good to see that he did not take the cliche route of doing either a silly comedy or a movie where brothers and sisters are in “the hood/ghetto” being shot, harmed or degraded (he probably would have received a really big budget to do a film like that).
Many BLESSINGS to David Banner on this endeavor, and may he continue to highlight African culture and storytelling, righteousness and positivity within his future projects!
Thanks a lot for posting this, Bro. Davey! This is another kind of story about a rapper that we will NOT hear about in the news, or highlighted on mainstream television or radio.
WE NEED TO SUPPORT THIS, PEOPLE!
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Big up to you film maker Banner!!!!! Feeling this idea and content of the movie. Just in time to counter all this “butler” “help” type ish that Hollywood insist on pushing. Thax for this fam. I still say you are our hood Moses or Thutmose, Mosai.