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Peanuts’ New Franklin Special Fixes 50 Years of Race Controversy
The charming, emotionally profound new Apple TV+ special “Welcome Home, Franklin” restages a classic dinner table scene that made people angry for five decades.
The Daily Beast’s Obsessed spoke to Craig Schulz, executive producer of Welcome Home, Franklin and overseer of all Peanuts media, and director Raymond S. Persi over Zoom, about Franklin’s introduction and initial backlash, following the legacy of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz(who is Craig’s father), and seizing the opportunity to respond to a controversial shot from the 1973 Thanksgiving special. Charles took his son to his bedroom and showed him “this letter that’s two pages long of this rant of somebody who just blasted him for putting a Black character in the comic strip,” Schulz recalled. So when the idea came up for the soapbox derby cars, that can be really fun, because it gives you the opportunity to have [Charlie Brown and Franklin] build something together and then capture the essence of the conversation of two children.”
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