'Lord of the Rings' Pulled From China's Movie Theaters, Replaced by Communist Party Propaganda
On 4/12/21 at 11:43 AM EDT
The Lord of the Rings has been pulled from China's movie theaters and replaced with a series of pre–Cultural Revolution films, ending just two weeks of a rerelease period for Peter Jackson's epic trilogy.
Multiple Chinese news outlets reported this week that the Chinese Communist Party's National Film Administration suddenly withdrew the Hollywood movies, which were scheduled to return to theaters this month, just in time for a 20th anniversary. The film adaptions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy book series are now set to be replaced with CCP propaganda films, to celebrate the party's 100th anniversary, between April 1 and December.