WB Removing Anti-War Gesture
How about elminating the movie altogether?
Source: CNN.com
WB eliminates peace sign from poster
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — “What a Girl Wants” is to avoid making a political statement.
Print advertisements for the teen comedy originally featured a photograph of star Amanda Bynes wearing a tank top with an American flag on it and flashing the peace sign with her fingers as she stands between two British royal guards.
But with the war in Iraq sparking anti-war protests in the United States and abroad, Warner Bros. quickly changed the ad. The studio said Monday it feared the peace sign would be viewed as a political message.
New versions of the image feature Bynes with her right hand at her side, although many of the original posters already had been placed on billboards and buses before the change was made.
In the film, Bynes plays an American girl who travels to London to find the father she never knew, who’s a British politician. “What a Girl Wants” opens Friday nationwide.
Warner Bros. is a unit of AOL Time Warner, as is CNN.com.
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