Line #8 Creator/ReginaldHudlin


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3	Reginald Hudlin (born December 15, 1961 in Centerville, Illinois) is a film director, producer, writer, and former president of Creator/{{BET}} Entertainment. Hudlin directed ''Film/HouseParty'', ''Film/{{Boomerang\|1992}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', ''Film/TheGreatWhiteHype'', ''Film/{{Marshall}}'', and served as one of the producers of ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. He was also writer of ComicBook/BlackPanther for Creator/MarvelComics. He was an executive producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' while it was under development at Creator/{{FOX}}. Though no longer involved by the time the show was picked up by Creator/AdultSwim, the show was contractually obligated to continue to credit him as a producer.
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5	!!Selected Filmography
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7	[[AC:Film]]
8	* ''Film/HouseParty'' (1990) – Director, Writer, Actor as Burglar #1
9	* ''Film/{{Boomerang\|1992}}'' (1992) – Director, Actor as Street Hustler
10	* ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'' (1992) – Executive Producer and Writer
11	* ''Film/TheGreatWhiteHype'' (1996) – Director
12	* ''Film/TheLadiesMan'' (2000) – Director, Actor as Aloysius
13	* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' (2012) – Producer
14	* ''Film/{{Marshall}}'' (2017) – Producer, Director
15	* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'' (2022) – Executive Producer
16	* ''Film/CandyCaneLane'' (2023) - Director
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18	[[AC: Television]]
19	* ''Series/CityOfAngels'' (2000) – Director (1 episode)
20	* ''Series/TheBernieMacShow'' (2002–2005) – Producer (7 episodes), Director (11 episodes)
21	* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'' (2005) – Director (1 episode)
22	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' (2005–2008) – Executive Producer
23	* ''Series/RaisingTheBar'' (2009) – Director (1 episode)
24	* ''Series/{{The Office\|US}}'' (2009) – Director (1 episode)
25	* ''Series/TheMiddle'' (2009) – Director (1 episode)
26	* ''Series/ModernFamily'' (2009–2010) – Director (2 episodes)
27	* ''Series/BetterOffTed'' (2010) – Director (1 episode)
28	* ''Series/SonsOfTucson'' (2010) – Director (1 episode)
29	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Black Panther\|2010}}'' (2010) – Executive Producer (1 episode), Writer (1 episode), Actor as President (voice) in Episode #1.6
30	* ''Series/{{Outsourced}}'' (2010–2011) – Director (2 episodes
31	* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' (2010–2012) – Director (2 episodes)
32	* ''Series/FriendsWithBenefits'' (2011) – Director (1 episode)
33	* ''Series/AreWeThereYet'' (2012) – Director (3 episodes)
34	* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' (2013) – Director (1 episode)
35	* ''Series/{{Marry Me\|2014}}'' (2014–2015) – Director (2 episodes)
36	* ''Series/MurderInTheFirst'' (2014–2015) – Director (3 episodes)
37	* ''Series/NewGirl'' (2015) – Director (1 episode)
38	* ''Series/{{Telenovela}}'' (2015) – Director (1 episode)
39	* ''Series/{{Heartbeat}}'' (2016) – Director (1 episode)
40	* ''Series/BlackMonday'' (2019) – Director (2 episodes)
41	* ''Series/TheLastOG'' (2019) – Director (3 episodes)
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44	!!Tropes associated with his works:
45	* FantasticRacism: He once wrote a comic where Black Panther saves a bunch of Skrulls from some other Skrulls, in a continuation of an old ComicBook/FantasticFour comic. Half the Skrulls were living as black people, mainly Civil Rights activists from the 60's (with a [[MalcolmXerox Malcolm X skrull]] and a Black Panther movement), and the other half were 30's style white Gangsters, persecuting the "Black" Skrulls.
46	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A parody of Hudlin appears in two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''' second season, as a sellout BET executive named Weggie Rudlin, with a Harvard degree - similar to Hudlin's real role at BET.
47	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: ComicBook/DoctorDoom, Ulysses Klaw and arguably any non-BP character.
48	* RunningTheAsylum: Hudlin RetConned the fight between ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and T'Chaka from a fight of two characters that proves to be equal and shows mutual respect for each other turns into a CurbStompBattle.
49	** He did the same when he did a RetCon on the first meeting of T'Challa and Storm. Where originally Storm had actually saved T'Challa and they parted almost immediately after, Hudlin had T'Challa save Storm and [[WomenPreferStrongMen her swoon over his manly prowess]].
50	* SockPuppet: Has been caught using them to defend his Black Panther.
51	* TokenRomance[=/=]TokenMinorityCouple: ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}} and Black Panther
52	* TheWorfEffect: His retcon of the fight between T'Chaka and Captain America during World War II went from being a fight between equals that made both characters look good into a CurbStompBattle where T'Chaka easily defeats a Type II {{Eagleland}}er of a Captain America.

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