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Originally Posted by DNSB
I ran into one item that caused me a bit of a laugh. There was a group trying to raise money for a remake of Gone With The Wind but they ran into the issue that they would not be allowed to have even a small majority of the slaves played by persons of African descent.
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Huh, I find that hard to believe. Who had the authority to "not allow" it?
There's no ban (either legal, cultural, or practical) against films where all enslaved characters are played by Black actors.
Or do you mean that they couldn't find investors? And that this difficulty may have been (in part) because of how the book portrays slavery? That's a lot easier to believe.