The Pentagon Will Not Work With Filmmakers Who Cannot Guarantee That China Will Not Censor Their Movie

Maverick is not such a maverick that he'd stand up to China in the new Top Gun. Paramount Pictures / Business Insider  

Politico: Pentagon to filmmakers: We won’t help you if you kowtow To China  

DOD will no longer work with directors if their movie will be censored by Beijing. 

If you’re a filmmaker and you want the Pentagon’s help, from now on you’ll have to guarantee that you won’t let China censor your movie first. 

On Wednesday, the Defense Department updated its rules for working with movie studios to prohibit any assistance to directors who plan to comply or will likely comply with censorship demands from the Chinese government in order to distribute their movie there. 

The issue came to a head with last year’s release of “Top Gun: Maverick.” In trailers for the film, viewers noticed that the studio removed the flags of Taiwan and Japan from Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell’s flight jacket in an apparent attempt to appease Chinese investor Tencent. 

But after criticism in the U.S. — and after Tencent reportedly dropped its investment in the film –– the flags were restored in the final version. 

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Update: Defense Department declares it won’t work with Hollywood films that bow to Chinese censorship: report (FOX News)  

WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. The Chinese movie market is massive. Hollywood will find another way to accommodate China and ignore the Pentagon's edict.