Temporary move followed call by 12 Years a Slave scriptwriter John Ridley for streaming services to review content that is ‘blatant in its demonisation’ of race
The US civil war epic Gone With the Wind has been dropped from
HBO Max, the streaming service recently launched by Warner Bros as a rival to
Netflix and Disney+, after
protests over its depiction of slavery.
The move followed an article in the LA Times by John Ridley, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of 12 Years a Slave, in which he described it as “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”.