I may not know nothing ‘bout birthin’ no green light, but it seems to me that in a world desperate for content based on massive intellectual property, an even more exciting response might be making a movie written by a Black woman that places actor Hattie McDaniel where she always belonged: front and center.
Enter Gesha-Marie Bland (a Women in Film/Black List episodic writers lab alum) and her yet-unproduced Selznick’s Folly, which commanded rightful attention during the brief period its script was hosted on the Black List website. It’s Hattie’s story, mirrored by producer David O. Selznick’s, as a rather disturbingly resonant balancing act of art, profit, identity, and the sacrifices we make to pursue the American Dream.
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