How and why Canadian-American production crew (TUT) cast a Black (sub Saharan) men for prince and ki

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"Mitanni (/mɪˈtæni/; Hittite cuneiform KUR URUMi-ta-an-ni; Mittani Mi-it-ta-ni), also called Hanigalbat (Hanigalbat, Khanigalbat, cuneiform Ḫa-ni-gal-bat) in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia from c. 1500 to 1300 BC. Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite[1] Babylon and a series of ineffectual Assyrian kings created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.

How and why Canadian-American production crew (TUT) cast a Black (sub Saharan) men for prince and king of Mitanni empire (In Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria) . "

its so badly misleading ,

i was forced to check Wiki 2 times, what is a point in such historical and geographical inaccuracy?