Reginald Hudlin has been a player in the entertainment world for over 20 years, but on Feb. 24 Hudlin will have his first shot at winning an Oscar as one of the producers for Django Unchained. The Quentin Tarantino-directed film starring Jamie Foxx as a renegade slave turned bounty hunter is nominated for best picture, [...]
Reginald Hudlin and Tarantino Challenge Hollywood’s Portrayal of Slavery
December 12, 2012 | Posted by
Quentin Tarantino is known for his stylistic takes on film’s classic genres, but with Django Unchained, the prolific writer-director will be taking on a subject Hollywood has often chosen to ignore: slavery. At the surface Django Unchained is still a western, but with Jaime Foxx starring at the titular character, it will steer away from [...]
For ‘Django Unchained,’ Tarantino Was Told Slaves Need to Fight Back
July 1, 2012 | Posted by
Filmmaker Reginald Hudlin says Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, an upcoming movie starring Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx as a fugitive who gets revenge against his white slave masters, is a fast-moving, action-packed tome that’s far from your typical slave movie—and with good reason: Hudlin convinced Tarantino that the only way a pre-Civil War movie would find [...]
