Because the suits wanted JJ to continue to be the minstrel, and Amos was having none of it and stood up to them.
The man knows what he’s talking about.
The point isn’t to be creative but to say white people are evil. Slavery never dies. Black people are oppressed and need reparations.
It will not be on in this house.
I just saw they are ruining one of the best movies of all time- Uncle Buck. They are having an all black tv show with the same name. Will it be as pathetic as “Blackish”? Probably. Come up with your own original, non race related ideas, jerks.
What’s even more important, “Roots” has been shown to be a hoax. See legal issues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(miniseries)
I guess you could call remaking “Roots” an “easy credit rip-off”
Plus, they don’t have those great actors any more — Chuck Connors, Doug McClure, Lloyd Bridges, Lorne Greene.
Just a new version of an old lie. There is ZERO chance it will air in our house. But I’m sure it will manage to incite more animosity. Which of course if the point.
Roots did not help race relations at all...I am in the Deep South and i can tell you that blacks became more bitter and less friendly after that series played out....I can honestly say that it has never been the same since the airing of it...I was young and remember the vitriol spouted out after it... We were just kids and innocent....it created suc a division...some folks just don’t understand how this keeps us at each other’s throats....I wish it would stop...I’m too old for it now.
He’s right.
If they were to break out of the box, there is a lot they could do.
Favorite unmade projects -
Lovecrafts “Mountains of Madness” that Del Toro was working on.
The Wendell Fertig Philippine Guerilla movie that was in development (supposedly with Brad Pitt)
Both fresh.
Never watched the first one...wouldn’t watch any remakes.Slavery happened.Slavery was bad...*very* bad.Millions of Northerners (most of them white) died to end slavery.Next issue!
Another- the story of Juan Garrido
One of the black conquistadores who followed Cortez.
The story is fascinating, dramatic, since its got Aztecs, the siege of Tenochtitlan and etc., it would be spectacular. And morally ambiguous, with plenty of drama from flawed men.
https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/SpanishAm_furthRdg4.htm
They’re constantly into remakes. Then switch main characters to be politically correct. Look at what they did with Ghost Busters, and Wild Wild West, and Annie and McHale’s Navy.
Hollywood has been creatively bankrupt for decades.
They have about 2 dozen scripts that they boilerplate from. They change the names, change some of the dialogue, change locations, and wallah! a new movie or TV show.
As I remember Amos demanded much more money than the producers were willing to pay so he quit and they called his bluff.
As for the new version of ROOTS, this time everyone knows that the slave named “Kunta Kinte” was made up and the villagers in Africa were told what to say. Plus, most all the rest of ROOTS was fiction. But I did enjoy the hell out of it and it got me and lots of others into looking up or own roots.
But I notice in the trailer for the propaganda, I mean History, channel is still promoting the story as non fiction.
The most original programming seems to be on the web streamers these days. Copper, Marco Polo, House of Cards...
In this crazy PC world you would think they would have been re-running the original Roots all the time and make all school kids watch it over & over & over every year.
But then you see at the end how Chicken George got his freedom, by becoming a world class Cock fighting trainer.
In the Liberal useful idiot hierarchy, animals out rank Blacks, so Roots has been for the most part censored all these years.