The Volokh Conspiracy

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"North Korea-based thriller with Gore Verbinski and Steve Carell canceled"

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So reports Deadline Hollywood, as well as Entertainment Weekly and Hollywood Reporter. Extremists who want to shut down movies that depict China, Russia, Iran, or Islam unfavorably - or depict, say, abortion or hunting favorably - are doubtless taking note. Thugs 2, free speech 0.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.