Instead Carter had her own shoes made, and the result is movie costume history. The incredible six-inch, goldfish-filled platform shoes worn by Fargas were based on ones worn by former footballer John "Frenchy" Fuqua, who insisted on $2,500 a week to rent them out. Carter, who worked on numerous Spike Lee films as well as Black Panther (2018), had a particular challenge finding vintage '70s clothes before they came back into vogue, so she had to sit down with vintage catalogs and have the threads made from scratch. Even the current revised title caused some grammatical confusion, with one New York City theater listing it as I'm Going to Get You Sucker.
It was originally titled I Mo it U Sucka and deliberately downplayed its on-screen violence, specifically avoiding any bloodshed on camera. It made its money back with over $6 million at the box office, and opened regionally in 135 theaters on December 14, 1988, taking in just over $653,000 with another 40 cities added by the end of the month. The film was shot over a 32-day period with a budget just under $3 million. Shaft's ( 1971) Richard Roundtree and Superfly's (1972) Ron O'Neal also appear as the film's more significant holdouts. Wayans went to great lengths to round up vintage Blaxploitation stars including Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes and a scene-stealing Antonio Fargas. My film doesn't have the star value of an Eddie Murphy movie, but it has the same kind of approach in that everybody can relate to it." I think black exploitation movies occurred because blacks didn't have control of the images they were portraying. "That's important to me as a black filmmaker because I feel that our society is painted to be more racist than it is. "I wanted to do something that was true to its ethnicity but not restricted to it," he said in that same interview. One of their suggestions was, 'Why don't we get Anthony Michael Hall, and he'll play your little brother, and he can act black throughout the whole movie.' Then they said, 'We can get Charles Bronson to be one of your older brothers.'" A former engineering student at Alabama's Tuskegee University, Wayans was inspired to go into show business after watching Richard Pryor and decided to go to Hollywood where he met up with Townsend and became a regular standup comedian on The Tonight Show. 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.
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