JamalSpunky
Well-Known Member
Man oh man, in hindsight I really wish Nate Parker had taken his BOAN film to Netflix.
You could make the argument if he had chosen the Netflix deal, there wouldn't have been been the fake outrage controversy about his college rape case because TPTB that wanted the film to fail would've just ignored it because it's a Netflix film instead of an Oscar Bait theatrical film.
What I'm about to say isn't revisionism because I made this point months before A Birth of a Nation was released. The film should have been released like a typical arthouse/independent film. Instead, because of wild enthusiasm it received from a Sundance audience, the studio that purchased it thought it had the next Django blockbuster with some 12 Years A Slave prestige to go along with it. They put the trailer of this movie showing in theaters playing mainstream popcorn superhero flicks. That was dumb. They released this movie in over 2000 screens as if was some action flick starring the Rock. Before the controversy broke out I was shaking my head at the decisions being made by the studio. Those decisions, including overpaying for the rights, backfired.