Hollywood’s refusal to embrace the film isn’t surprising in an industry with a poor record of hiring Hispanics and putting Hispanic stories onscreen. Through no fault of their own, Bray and Carnahan’s timing was also inadvertently off. They pitched “El Chicano” a year before the 2018 release of “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” both wildly successful films that showed that diverse casts and story lines can draw big audiences and deliver fat bottom lines. Still, he said, films with all-Latinx casts tend to take far longer to get made than films with majority white casts. (The stars of “El Chicano” include Raúl Castillo, from the television shows “Looking” and “Atypical,” and the comedian George Lopez.)

Source: New York Times May 01, 2019 18:01 UTC