Well, the legal battle is over and Warner Brothers has won the day (kind of). The Weinstein Company have been forced to change the title of “The Butler” to “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” allowing Warner Bros. archivists and lawyers to finally get some rest, worried as they were that audiences might walk into upcoming movie expecting to see a silent film from 1916. PHEW! With all that legal nonsense behind them, Harvey and co. can start marketing this movie again and they’ve got the ball rolling.
“Whatever dignity was in the story is stripped away with dubious techniques of this very sick filmmaker, who really needs to get some help because he’s not just hurting himself, he’s hurting other people because they look at that and accept it as truth because the medium of film is so powerful and then it has the false veneer of an historical event,” he continued. Strong words indeed…
