Posted on 06/05/2016 3:54:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fox has apologized for promoting X-Men: Apocalypse with images of Jennifer Lawrence's character Mystique being strangled by Oscar Isaac's Apocalypse with the tagline: "Only the strong will survive."
"In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form," Fox said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter Friday.
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New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster last month above a subway station in Manhattan that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that read: "This violence in my kid's face is not okay.”
Mashable has reached out to Fox for a comment.
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Here's the whole thing.
Could be...box office isn't as strong as the previous X-Men flick.
It’s too bad, but when there is no question about whether the good guys are going to win, a story loses its punch. Tension is an important element in a book or movie, regardless of the genre.
Sorry it took me so long to respond. I always enjoy your perspective.
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