Why Sunny Hostin’s Hollywood Complaint Is Beyond Silly

Hold on tight. Sunny Hostin is playing the race card.

The far-Left “View” host played it for personal reasons this time. Hostin, unbeknownst to many, is a published author. Her book series includes titles like “Summer on the Bluffs” and “Summer on Highland Beach.”

Turns out at least one tome made it to the New York Times’ Bestseller list. Said list is compromised, sadly, but it’s still a feather in Hostin’s cap.

You go, birthing person!

That’s not enough, though. She wants to see her stories on the big screen. And she blames racism for their absence.

“And the gatekeeping in Hollywood around Black and Brown creative content is insane,” she continued. “I cannot get New York Times best-selling books onto the screen to tell diverse stories to diverse communities.”

Wait … a successful author is having trouble getting his or her work to translate to theaters? Why, this must be the first time that ever happened.

Or the thousandth.

The movie-making process is arduous on the best of days. Many talented and/or successful writers struggle to turn their tales into feature films.

Producer Mark Joseph penned an entire book on how hard it was to bring President Ronald Reagan’s life story to the big screen. Many people would have given up on the project at many steps along the way.

Not Joseph.

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There are endless complications in getting a story to the big screen. Budgetary considerations. The mood of the marketplace. The storyteller’s connections (or lack thereof).

A project can go south if there’s a changing of the guard atop the studio. Or, perhaps a name actor attaches herself to a project but then withdraws a short while later.

That’s … Hollywood. It’s maddening. But that’s not new. So for Hostin to play the Race Card here makes little sense.

It’s still on brand.

One factor in her favor? Her ABC platform would allow her to promote the film, free of charge, if a studio bit on the stories.

Hostin’s Plan B is interesting.

She decided to go around the Hollywood “gatekeepers” by partnering with an A.I. company. Together, they’ll use A.I. to create digital actors and tell her stories that way.

‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Defends AI As “New Art Form” Amid “Gatekeeping In Hollywood Around Black & Brown Creative Content” https://t.co/eSLzSMsw2q

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Never mind that her adaptations will keep black actors unemployed, or that we haven’t seen this kind of project succeed on any level quite yet.

Call Hostin an innovator or someone who sees a race-based conspiracy around every corner.