HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions

HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions in New York Times.

HBO Max, owned by AT&T, pulled the film on Tuesday, one day after John Ridley, the screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times calling for its removal. Mr. Ridley said he understood that films were snapshots of their moment in history, but that “Gone With the Wind” was still used to “give cover to those who falsely claim that clinging to the iconography of the plantation era is a matter of ‘heritage, not hate.’”

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Interview on CNN with John Ridley regarding 'Gone With the Wind' pulled from HBO Max - Watch here

"Nobody is saying take this away,” says Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley about HBO Max temporarily pulling “Gone With the Wind” from its library due to “racist depictions.”

“If it can’t stand up to the context, it should never exist.”