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4 months ago (10 January 2012)
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"23 years. We finished it, financed it myself, and I figured, you know, I could get prints and ads paid for by the studios, and that they would release it. I showed it to all of them and they said ‘No. we don’t know how to market a movie like this.’ …It’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first all-black action pictures ever made."

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Red Tails executive producer GEORGE LUCAS, on why it took more than two decades for his latest film to hit movie theatres, on The Daily Show.

For shame, Hollywood.

(via inothernews)

imagine how much harder this movie would have been to make if wealthy, respected, influenctial white guy george lucas hadn’t been involved. hollywood, man.

(via nom-chompsky)

This pretty much tells me that Danny Glover’s Haiti Revolution movie is never getting made…….I can’t. 

(via kyssthis16)

Hollywood, forever finding new and interesting ways to disappoint me.

(via glossylalia)

Seriously, if George motherfucking Lucas can only barely manage it…

(via talldarkbishoujo)

Please note, that though I have heard it through you all and a few friends, I have not seen one television spot for Red-Tails!

This is Hollywood.

(via hamburgerjack)

‘bout to cry. bittersweet. ironic its coming from Lucas, because I always felt weird about that dude before…

(via no-sauce)

White films are seen as universal, universally relevant which will accrue the most money worldwide. This is why constantly, Asian movies are snatched, for example, get picked up and recasted completely with an all white cast or the protagonist is changed to white. Because of ethnocentric and racist-drenched notions or tastes for ‘white as normative,’ most non-white films will get deemed as ‘too ethnic’ aka not white ’normal,’ unable for audiences to relate, etc. Nonwhite films will get viewed as forms of the mythical reverse racism … all of this boiling down to $ because racism doesn’t sleep by itself, it sleeps with cash and other things… The primary way to make money off of black & other nonwhite folk is if there is some stereotype for those nonwhite folk in a primarily white movie to play that help reify what was already thought about the groups those nonwhites ‘represent.’ It’s crazy …

(via larepublicadedet)

i will definitely be in the theater to support this movie then. i think that asking/expecting/hoping hollywood will change anything is a pipe dream, but i do believe in supporting black art, including those few black hollywood films like this that manage to get made in spite of white supremacy.

plus there are some fine slices of ass up in that piece, so.

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