Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a restrictive and repressive foreign country edited and censored an LGBTQ scene from a movie and now the American distributor is upset. We can think of a dozen movies that come to mind.
In this case, a Chinese distributor caved to the government’s pressure and edited a scene in the recent indie body horror movie “Together,” changing a gay wedding to a straight one. Neon isn’t pleased, and it demanded that Hishow, the Chinese distributor to whom it sold the foreign rights, stop showing “this altered version,” the company told IndieWire in a statement.
