Post by Adam B on Oct 16, 2009 6:39:47 GMT -5
Blaxploitation films have given us some of our most outrageous heroes. From Shaft, to Super Fly, to The Mack, the 70’s film genre was loaded with badasses we could all root for. Black Dynamite is set to lead the next generation of those badasses. The film hits theaters today and I caught up with Michael Jai White, who is both the writer and the star of the film, and Scott Sanders, who is the film’s director, to find out what inspired them to create Black Dynamite, how they gauged what the right level of over the top was, and how their recent travels showed them badass is a universal concept. Also, because I’m me, I asked White about some of his original gigs, which included two Toxic Avenger films and arresting AC Slater on Saved By The Bell.
Read the full feature at: adambernard.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-dynamite-badass-is-universal.html