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'Saw' director: Hollywood is shy about Trump content — and that's scary
What happened
AlterNet reports that director Kevin Greutert believes studios and financiers avoid explicit Trump-era political stories because they fear alienating “half of the American body politic.” He said that concern killed The Endorsement, a proposed horror film about a small-town journalist threatened by a politically motivated serial killer after persuading her newspaper to endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Greutert also said a planned version of Saw XI involving two mayoral candidates and an election-themed trap was abandoned when “a different approach was selected,” though he did not…
The skinny
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