A Department of Defense document reportedly reveals that the agency has updated its policy to refuse to advise any movie that will be altered for Chinese censors.

I'm linking the article but the actual dunk is on redditors who see this and cheer, completely ignoring that this is an extension of how much power/influence the American military has over hollywood film. Want to film anything that might have the military in it? You gotta play ball babyyyy! Ever notice how weirdly patriotic and jingoistic almost every film that features a tank is? They played ball babbyyyy!!!

there was a good comment on reddit at least though https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/14o3xt8/defense_department_declares_it_wont_work_with/jqbfo50/

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah video game movies might be the next big thing. The Pentagon will absolutely help fund a shitload of Call of Duty films at the very least - they already send advisors to consult for the games. Any Hollywood executive would greenlight that series immediately just based on all of the free US govt funding it would get.

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I know everyone knows this, but it’s pretty insane how CoD barely advertise their story now lol. I went on the steam page and every screenshot and video is just colorful guns and punk rock operators lol. And maybe at the end it’s a screenshot of the story.

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      I can see a Call of Duty movie franchise, but those movies probably wouldn't sell well in China in the first place. I just don't know how many film-makers are actually going to have to choose between the Chinese market and DoD slush.