ATLANTA, Jan. 25,
2012, 8:30 a.m.
-This weekend will be the litmus test
to see how viable the “Black Action Hero Movie Market” really
is… For years Hollywood has never “Green Lighted” an All Black
Action Hero film under the auspice that it will not sell. The
Action Hero film genre average cost of 50 million dollars in
production cost, Hollywood fears that risking that kind of money
in a business model is bad business.
In retrospect, some of the biggest films in Film
History have been inspired, created, and written by African
Americans. Sylvester Stallone goes on record to say that his
inspiration for ROCKY came from watching a Muhammad Ali fight in
which Ali’s opponent for a split second got in a few hits on the
champ and created a false sense of hope for Ali’s opponent and
in that moment Stallone became inspired to write and create one
of the best inspirational and motivational films of all time
ROCKY inspired by Muhammed Ali.
Also in the 80’s a client of mine Ms. Sophia
Stewart (Google: Sophia Stewart) wrote a book called the third
eye an all “Black Action Hero Movie” of which her inspiration
for the main role of the characters was also Muhammed Ali. The
Wackoski brothers read the book the Third Eye became inspired
and created not one but 2 Blockbuster Brands “Terminator” and
“The Matrix” grossing over $500 million combined sales to date
from one body of work written by a black woman about “Black
Action Heroes”.
So clearly if “Blockbuster” films from the last
30 - 40 years have been inspired and written by black people,
but have been changed to fit the Distribution Requirements of
Hollywood. Then the question becomes why now is it “Good Timing”
for “Red Tails” to be successful? Is it because for the past
four years we have subconsciously and consciously seen an
African American operate as the commander and chief over our
affairs in this country or because this story of the Tuskegee
Airmen is just so important.
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