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After His Op-Ed Got ‘Gone With The Wind’ Pulled From HBO Max, John Ridley Ponders Permanent Hollywood Change As ABC Re-Airs His L.A. Riots Docu ‘Let It Fall’ – Deadline Q&A

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Writer-director John Ridley has been writing and directing film and TV projects about racial conflict his whole career.

And despite winning the Oscar for scripting 12 Years a Slave, he has always found it a tough sell, the idea of forcing people to confront their own feelings about race and prejudice.

He is in an unusual place in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder that prompted protests in major cities across the country.

Right after writing a brief op-ed in the Los Angeles Times suggesting it wasn’t OK for HBO Max to continue airing the cinematic classic Gone With The Wind without a qualifier that it wrongly celebrates the South and diminishes the horrors of slavery, WarnerMedia.

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