"John Lewis: Good Trouble" got made and it was entirely sympathetic to Lewis in that fight, but that was for CNN, not a Hollywood movie.
John's movie would run into discourse trouble at this minute because it would portray the end of the old Black-Jewish civil rights alliance and that might launch more takes than the idea that Black Power was counterproductive for Black people, a completely uncontroversial idea when Taylor Branch espoused it in the 1990s.
I lost track of where Davin Phoenix is with this project but he was working on something on the Panthers' rhetoric trying to be more judicious about the pop culture images of them which we all have and what they could really mean for politics today.
"John Lewis: Good Trouble" got made and it was entirely sympathetic to Lewis in that fight, but that was for CNN, not a Hollywood movie.
John's movie would run into discourse trouble at this minute because it would portray the end of the old Black-Jewish civil rights alliance and that might launch more takes than the idea that Black Power was counterproductive for Black people, a completely uncontroversial idea when Taylor Branch espoused it in the 1990s.
I lost track of where Davin Phoenix is with this project but he was working on something on the Panthers' rhetoric trying to be more judicious about the pop culture images of them which we all have and what they could really mean for politics today.