How that TopGun2 trailer stirred up a controversy
Suspicions have been heightened by the fact that Tencent Pictures, the film division of Chinese internet giant Tencent, is a co-financier of the newmovie. Tencent also is a part-owner of David Ellison's Skydance, which is co-producing the film with Paramount.
But even without the direct involvement of Chinese investors, Hollywood studios have for years avoided storylines, characters or even visual elements that could conceivably cause offense to either Beijing authorities or nationalistic segments of the Chinese audience. Given Beijing's historically fraught relationship with both Taiwan and Japan, the reference to Washington's military alliance with Taipei and Tokyo on Cruise's original bomber jacket very well could catch the attention of Beijing censors and Chinese filmgoers, who are no less eagle-eyed in their scrutiny of film details than American fans appear to be.
For the better part of a decade, U.S. studios have been careful to portray China in an unfailingly positive, or neutral, light. Film projects casting a critical eye on the China of the past or present —which criticized China's legal system — haven't gotten made since the 1990s.
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