Exclusive: The Banker co-writer/director George Nolfi has gone on the record for the first time to correct what he said are false statements that have become a part of the narrative about a film that became a hot potato once Cynthia Garrett – daughter of the film’s protagonist, Bernard Garrett Sr – accused her half-brother Bernard Garrett Jr of molesting her and her sister decades ago, charges he denied.
The controversy has overshadowed the movie’s inspirational story of two black millionaires who secretly used a white front man so they could buy banks and give loans to blacks shut out of the chance to build wealth in Jim Crow-era Texas. The film was on a charmed track as Apple’s first theatrical release that was supposed to happen this Friday. Nolfi, Anthony Mackie (who plays Garrett Sr), Samuel L. Jackson and others made...
The controversy has overshadowed the movie’s inspirational story of two black millionaires who secretly used a white front man so they could buy banks and give loans to blacks shut out of the chance to build wealth in Jim Crow-era Texas. The film was on a charmed track as Apple’s first theatrical release that was supposed to happen this Friday. Nolfi, Anthony Mackie (who plays Garrett Sr), Samuel L. Jackson and others made...
- 12/5/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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