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‘Gone With the Wind’ Will Return to HBO Max After ‘Careful’ Planning

16.06.2020 - 23:55

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Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max’s Sandra Dewey has said the streamer is being “slow and careful” in its plans to bring back “Gone With the Wind” after the film was yanked from the platform in the wake of the George Floyd protests.Speaking as part of the virtual Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday, the president of business affairs and production for HBO Max told Variety that the platform is still “working out” a strategy to bring the 1939 film back.“We are being slow and careful and I think that’s the right response.

It will be represented, but with context and framing,” said Dewey.“No one wants to take [away] these pieces of content — and there are many of them — that have what would accurately be depicted as racial.

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