Entertainment Center/Reported by Chen Yiyu
▲ “Doctor Strange 2: Runaway Multiverse” will be released in Taiwan on May 4. (Photo/Provided by Disney)
The Marvel blockbuster “Doctor Strange 2: Out of Control Multiverse” starring Benedict Cumberbatch will be released in Taiwan on May 4. The starring group had previously appeared in London, England for publicity. The movie website IMDb released a sneak preview yesterday (29), in which the words “Epoch Times” appeared in one scene, but it made Chinese netizens go crazy.
In this clip, Doctor Strange and the villain “Gargantos” are fighting on the street. When the camera is zoomed out, a street scene is captured. A yellow newspaper box clearly reads “The Epoch Times”. In fact, “The Epoch Times” It is a media established in the United States by Falun Gong members suppressed by the CCP. The media is famous for its anti-communism and has publications around the world.
▲ The words “Epoch Times” appear in the first look clip (bottom left). (Picture / Retrieved from IMDb)
After the clip was released, it also sparked protests from Chinese netizens, who said that it was “humiliating China”, and they left messages saying “I don’t want the Chinese market to be honest, and what kind of private goods are entrained”, “Laughing to death, does Marvel feel that the money earned in China has already been made? Enough for the rest of his life?”, “I won’t go to the cinema to watch Marvel movies anyway. Just like I won’t pay to watch the NBA right now.”
Although Chinese netizens shouted boycotts, in fact “Doctor Strange 2” is not currently planned to be released in China other than Hong Kong and Macau. The film has added the concept of multiverse this time,
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