Background
Hudlin was born in Centreville, Illinois, the son of Helen (née Cason), a teacher, and Warrington W. Hudlin, Senior, an insurance executive and teacher.
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This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists—answers the burning question: Would anyone care if East St. Louis seceded from the Union? East St. Louis, Illinois (“the inner city without an outer city”), is an impoverished town, so poor that Fred Fredericks, its idealistic mayor, starts off Election Day by collecting the city’s trash in his own minivan. But the mayor believes in the power of democracy and rallies his fellow citizens to the polls for the presidential election, only to find hundreds of them turned away for trumped-up reasons. Even sweet old Miss Jackson—not to mention the mayor himself—is denied the vote because her name turns up on a bogus list of felons. The national election hinges on Illinois’s electoral votes and, as a result of the mass disenfranchisement of East St. Louis, a radical right-wing junta led by a dim-witted Texas governor seizes the Oval Office. Prodded by shady black billionaire and old friend John Roberts, Fredericks devises a radical plan of protest: East St. Louis will secede from the Union. Roberts opens an “offshore” bank (albeit in the heart of the U.S.) to finance the newly liberated country, and suddenly East St. Louis becomes the Switzerland of the American heartland, flush with money. It also begins to attract a motley circus of idealistic young militants, OPEC-funded hitmen, CIA operatives, tabloid reporters, and AWOL black servicemen eager to protect and serve the new nation. Problems set in almost immediately: Controversies rage over the name and national anthem of the new country (they decide on the Republic of Blackland with an anthem sung to the tune of the theme from Good Times), and local thug Roscoe becomes a warlord and turns his gang into a paramilitary force. When the U.S. military begins to move in, Fredericks is forced to decide whether his protest is worth taking all the way. Birth of a Nation starts with a scenario drawn from the botched election of 2000 and spins it into a brilliantly absurd work of sharply pointed satire. Along the way the authors lay into a host of hot social and cultural issues—skewering white supremacists, black nationalists, and everyone in between—drawing real blood and real laughs in equal measure in this riotous send-up of American politics.
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Hudlin was born in Centreville, Illinois, the son of Helen (née Cason), a teacher, and Warrington W. Hudlin, Senior, an insurance executive and teacher.
Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1983.
He served as President of Entertainment for Black Entertainment Television from 2005 to 2008. He co-produced the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in 2016. He directed and He was a producer of Quentin Tarantino"s Django Unchained (2012).
lieutenant would serve as the basis for his first feature film of the same name.
Foreign two years he has been the executive producer of the "". The show got its highest rating on National Broadcasting Company in 2013, then became the highest rated show in the history of television One in 2014.
He directed House Party, Boomerang, The Great White Hype, The Ladies Manitoba,, two episodes of the television series Modern Family, an episode of The Office, an episode of The Middle and several episodes of Outsourced. He was a reoccurring producer and director of the The Bernie Mac Show for three years.
From 2005 to 2008, Hudlin was the President of Entertainment for Black Entertainment Television. He was the writer of the Marvel Comics series Black Panther from 2005 to 2008, most notable for the 2006 storyline "Bride of the Panther," which saw the characters Storm and the Black Panther wed.
He was one of the producers of Quentin Tarantino"s Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson. On January 10, 2013, Hudlin received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture for the film. Hudlin was lampooned on two unaired episodes of the animated television show The Boondocks: "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show." "Wedgie Rudlin" was depicted as a "culturally insensitive buffoon coasting on his Ivy League education." Ironically, Hudlin retains an executive producer cr on The Boondocks (series 1 & 2), though this is only a contractual obligation.
(This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from ...)
Member of Black Filmmakers Foundation (co-founder 1978).
Married Chrisette Suter, November 30, 2002.