Will Smith is not rocking with Georgia’s controversial new voting laws. According to Deadline, Smith and director Antoine Fuqua are officially pulling the production of their new film, Emancipation, from the Peach State in response to the new voting laws.
Emancipation tells the true story of a runaway slave played by Will Smith who had to survive the dangerous swamps of Louisiana in order to escape hunters on his trail. After battling with Warner Bros., Apple bought the film in a deal worth $130 million.
“At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice,” Smith and Fuqua said in a statement. “We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access.
“The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state.”
The move comes weeks after discussions between the filmmakers and film officials in Georgia and with political leaders like Stacey Abrams. Along with Tyler Perry and others, Abrams urged Hollywood not to take film productions away from the state in response to the new restrictive voting laws signed by Republican governor Brian Kemp.
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the news media have the power to win or lose general elections and they also have the power to divide your country.
Uh yeah no shit look what they did to Mr Trump
well i was really referring to white cops shooting black people but okay.
Or black people in general killing fellow backs and murdering innocent white people? Yeah what about those people? Or you are a follower of blind sheep of blm? You are all hypocrites.
Wrong is wrong no matter who it is coming from. May God Bless and Guide ALL of our views!
I really hate when art and politics intersect… I understand how they eventually collide, but it should come across more as philosophy imo. In order to make a philosophical point, they would have to define the value that is being imposed on which would actually require them to educate people on what’s happening. Virtue signaling isn’t the same as standing for something, and it perpetuates a black and white mindset when you do it and don’t say specifically why.
You wrote all that…in rebuttal to a slave movie. Marinate on that.
You illiterate fucks don’t give us the opportunity to marinate and reply. The moment somebody post a comment exposing one of your trash clickbait exposes its immediately deleted. Pussy. Hold this L
Have fun with a flop like coming to america 2
…… but the money would have helped the same people for which he claims he’s protesting. The common people keep getting screwed by these political protests
Good for Will Smith. Things won’t change until we the people, poor and rich, fight for our rights at the local, state, and federal levels.