Can Black people create shows like The Wire or Breaking Bad?

[b@squ1@t]

my movie premise ft. keanu reeves:

It's still rough but Paramount gave us the nod,

The loose sketch of the premise is:

In the deep south during the civil war a confederate general's wife makes a life or death decision to save her baby son by sending him down a stream to avoid arrest and possible death by union soldiers. The baby is discovered by a community of escaped slaves looking to make it up to chicago for a free way of life.

Keanu is raised by this community and forms an obsession for their blues music as well as piano. Keanu becomes the voice of slaves everywhere in their struggle for freedom using his music and winning over the racist south as well as charming the north. His music becomes the base for modern jazz and hip hop.

Raw sketch but we're smoothing it out, Sean Penn has also signed on.

 

[b@squ1@t]

fukk that.

shyt don't need any smoothing out.

Perfect as is.

shyt is biblical.

 

[b@squ1@t]

Red and Meth will play the freed slaves

 

[b@squ1@t]

sean penn will reprise a role reminiscent of robert downey jr. in tropic thunder playing the friendly ex-field negro who co-signs the wild antics of a burgeoning musical genius in keanu

 

[ryshy]

another retarded thread

 

[???]

another retarded thread

Yeah but you haven't done it. Oh the cacs are blocking us WOW, I don't believe any of that nonsense.

 

[USSInsiders]

1 star just off the title.......


Here's your new title......Would the Wire and Breaking Bad be critically acclaimed if the cast was all black?


Please believe if a brother\sister wrote a brilliant show and the cast was 95% black, its not getting green-lit.....

If a brother\sister wrote a show and the cast was 95% black with lots of buck dancing and slapstick comedy, it has a better shot

you know the Wire has a mostly black cast and it was one of most critically acclaimed shows ever created, right?

I get what you mean about the creator of the product coming into play though.

 

[ryshy]

Yeah but you haven't done it. Oh the cacs are blocking us WOW, I don't believe any of that nonsense.

the fukk are you talking about

 

[Drew Wonder]

Ya'll ever heard of Charles Burnett? a lot of film buffs name drop him as the GOAT black filmmaker, calling his movies pure art. he's never gotten much of a fanbase though outside of hardcore arthouse fans

but one of these days I'm gonna sit down and watch this

 

[???]

you know the Wire has a mostly black cast and it was one of most critically acclaimed shows ever created, right?

I get what you mean about the creator of the product coming into play though.

I'm talking about the creators and all the writers being about 99% black.

 

[???]

Ya'll ever heard of Charles Burnett? a lot of film buffs name drop him as the GOAT black filmmaker, calling his movies pure art. he's never gotten much of a fanbase though outside of hardcore arthouse fans

but one of these days I'm gonna sit down and watch this

Thank you! I will check him out.

 

[USSInsiders]

I'm talking about the creators and all the writers being about 99% black.

Ok, so make another script

 

[???]

the fukk are you talking about

GET OUT OF THIS THREAD

 

[Drew Wonder]

1 star just off the title.......


Here's your new title......Would the Wire and Breaking Bad be critically acclaimed if the cast was all black?


Please believe if a brother\sister wrote a brilliant show and the cast was 95% black, its not getting green-lit.....

If a brother\sister wrote a show and the cast was 95% black with lots of buck dancing and slapstick comedy, it has a better shot

The Wire is a bad example bruh. Save for one season, it featured a mostly black cast and gave a shytload of talented but unknown black actors an opportunity they normally wouldn't get. That other show, the Corner, was critically acclaimed as well and I don't remember any white people on there

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

You are sensitive and catching feelings dude for nothing.

How about Soul Food that was on showtime in the early 2000s? Wasn't it a majority black cast that was a good show?

It wasn't filled with any c00nery, the show doesn't need to be critically acclaimed by the mainstream media.

But you use Breaking Bad and the Wire for your template.......?

Maybe you don't know what you're asking...


Besides....Soul Food had a lot of gratuitous sex scenes and Showtime used that to pull in a bigger demographic.......

Basically, it was targeted to a black audience.......

It appears that your questioning whether a black writer can run a show that can go mainstream....