Could blazing saddles be made today?

Are you crazy? Even Tropic Thunder from 2006 couldn't be made

If Gene Wilder were still alive today, he’d be cancelled for it nearly 50 years after the fact.

Thinking back though I can’t recall. Other than Granny’s “n-bomb” was there anything else that charged?

All I remember is that line and the campfire fart scene.

yes,

if it starred LeBron
and Hedley Lamarr were killed in the end , the Gunfighter role played by a woman

the townspeople don't just accept blacks. Irish and Chinese but gay and trans

Yes. Brooks said it couldn't have been made in the 70s.

People are hyper-vigilant to be outraged. Look at the story on the OT about the lady selling yellow stars. There are idiots who actually interpret her actions as anti-Semitic.

lol

Django was funny af and about slavery so maybe. Just need to have Jamie Foxx another black man shooting all the whiteys to a great 2pac song to end it all ha

I know. Seriously tho Don Johnson and Sam Jackson had me dying in that shite

No no no dont treat em like a white man do em like that slow boy what's his name haha

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Could blazing saddles be made today?
Even though it’s an all time classic could it be made in the worlds current climate?

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Yes, sort of.

Game of Thrones, for example, had incest, rape, slavery, etc. It just depends on the context.

I think it could still get made, and sell. The biggest thing isn't "would people see it" - they would.

Would people complain? Of course they would. You can't make anything without SOMEONE complaining - both sides have mastered the art of complaining without any real reason to.

The biggest question these days is, "Would a major studio gamble that enough people would see it?" Broader appeal is what works these days; so you're more likely to see it as an indie film.

**OR** you get a big enough name to back it so that you can temper any cries against it. Like having Dave Chappelle co-write it. You get a white guy and a black guy writing it together and suddenly a lot of the complaints have an easy rebuttal.

Could a bunch of white guys writing it make it work? Probably not.

There's a reason you get a lot of laughs from a pretty liberal audience when Che and Jost swap jokes - it feels okay to laugh at the joke when you feel that the person writing it is coming from the place being made fun of. Self-deprecating humor still goes a VERY long way.

So yeah, get an African-American writer to do a good portion of the dialogue, make sure he's on all the promo tours - hell, if he's an actor too have him play the sheriff. Then when people say, "But what about when they say X?" he can reply, "Well, I thought it was pretty funny when I wrote it."