HBO Max is letting go of Gone With the Wind. The streaming service quietly removed the Academy Award-winning 1939 film from its selection amid global protests condemning systemic racism and police brutality, various news outlets reported on Tuesday (June 9) following an op-ed by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley in the LA Times about reconsidering the movie’s availability. “It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color,” he wrote in the piece. “Currently, there is not even a warning or disclaimer preceding the film.
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