In a promotional interview for People, he recalled, 'Prior to going to United Artists, which released the movie, I went to this one company where they had this most bizarre let's-mix-it-up mentality. Not surprisingly, Wayans had some difficulty pitching his idea to studios and financiers. The actor-turned-filmmaker had already appeared in (and co-wrote) more familiar clichés of Blaxploitation in brief segments of Robert Townsend's low-budget wonder, Hollywood Shuffle (1987), but Wayans' film would be the first feature-length lampoon of the movement, a tactic later used by such films as Undercover Brother (2002) and Black Dynamite (2009). The American film movement commonly known as 'Blaxploitation' had been over for nearly a decade before the first full-force parody of it arrived in 1988 with I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the directorial debut of actor Keenen Ivory Wayans.
