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The BBC reports that supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, next week, over claims that scenes had been reshot after the election to make the film more of a thinly-veiled jab linking the president-elect to racism.
Supporters of Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, due for US release next week.
The campaign began with a series of tweets from activist Jack Posobiec, who claimed the writers changed the film to add scenes linking Mr Trump to racism.
Screenwriter Chris Weitz said that this was "completely fake", though he and another writer have tweeted their opposition to the US president-elect.
#DumpStarWars has been retweeted 120,000 times in the past 24 hours.
In a Periscope video, Jack Posobiec, who is an activist with Citizens for Trump, claimed the writers had said the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organization like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them".
"They're trying to make the point of using this movie to push the false narrative... that Trump is a racist." he said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @03:42AM
Dude, your own post is fucking crazy.
What sane person even cares so much to try to make the narrative fit or not fit the way you did?
The empire was clearly inspired by the nazis - calling them stormtroopers and filming all those scenes with them in formation was kinda a big hint. And then Lucas referring to imperial officers as nazis in the DVD commentary [starwars.com] more than gave it away
The fact that everything doesn't perfectly line up, well duh! if it were a one-to-one match that wouldn't leave much room for Lucas to tell his own story.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday December 12 2016, @11:59AM
sudo mod me up