{"id":1549197,"date":"2022-07-11T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549197"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:49:50","slug":"same-fate-as-lightyear-china-yet-to-set-release-date-for-gayest-thor-sequel-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/same-fate-as-lightyear-china-yet-to-set-release-date-for-gayest-thor-sequel-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Same Fate\u2019 As \u2018Lightyear\u2019: China Yet To Set Release Date For \u2018Gayest\u2019 Thor Sequel Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsame-fate-as-lightyear-china-yet-to-set-release-date-for-gayest-thor-sequel-yet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\">LGBT<\/a> messaging, Marvel\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-thor-love-and-thunder-trailer-has-fans-predicting-marvel-superhero-is-gay\">Thor: Love and Thunder<\/a>\u201d will likely suffer the \u201csame fate\u201d as the Disney\/Pixar \u201cToy Story\u201d underwhelming spinoff, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gay-kiss-included-woke-toy-story-spinoff-lightyear-struggles-at-box-office\">Lightyear<\/a>,\u201d insiders say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/thor-love-and-thunder-china-lgbtq-censorship-1235177951\/\">According<\/a> to sources at The Hollywood Reporter, China\u2019s film regulators have yet to grant a release date for the \u201cThor\u201d sequel, and likely never will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources at two major cinema chains in China tell <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that they expect <em>Thor 4<\/em> will face the same fate as Pixar\u2019s <em>Lightyear<\/em>: denied censorship approval because of fleeting moments in the movie involving LGBTQ characters,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest \u201cThor\u201d sequel has been praised by actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-love-that-natalie-portman-boasts-new-thor-film-is-the-gayest-marvel-movie-yet\">Natalie Portman<\/a> as\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s (MCU) \u201cgayest\u201d film to date. A\u00a0character named Valkyrie, played by Tessa Thompson, is bisexual and a character called Korg, played by director\u00a0Taika Waititi, is gay.<\/p>\n<p>Portman earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-love-that-natalie-portman-boasts-new-thor-film-is-the-gayest-marvel-movie-yet\">gushed<\/a> with film\u00a0critic Andrew Freund about \u201chow gay\u201d the flick is, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that reading of it. Yes, I love that,\u201d the actress said when Freund asked if the sequel was\u00a0\u201cthe gayest movie ever made in the MCU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you\u2019re flying on rainbows, or am I imagining it?\u201d Freund asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the core of the comics,\u201d Portman agreed. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s where it all started. It\u2019s very true to the source material, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freund later said he \u201cthought the movie was awesome,\u201d adding, \u201cand I loved how gay it was!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the LGBT characters was forced, though, at least according to film critic David Rooney, who said the injection felt like \u201cpandering representation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the inclusion of queer characters \u2014 Valkyrie pines for the love of her lost warrior sister; Korg reveals that his species mates with other males to make baby rock monsters \u2014 seems more like pandering representation than anything vitally grounded in the storytelling,\u201d Rooney wrote in a rather rough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/thor-love-and-thunder-1235175416\/\">review<\/a> at The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLightyear\u201d reportedly hit roadblocks in China over a same-sex kiss between two female characters. China has largely banned LGBTQ storytelling from its screens, though its censorship procedures remain somewhat under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cThor\u201d is looking at an indefinite block in China, the Marvel film is still unsurprisingly bringing in big numbers. Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/07\/box-office-thor-love-and-thunder-1235060300\/\">reported<\/a> Sunday that \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d\u00a0grossed a $143 million\u00a0opening in North America, and pulled $302 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">announced<\/a>\u00a0plans for kids\u2019 entertainment content.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-love-that-natalie-portman-boasts-new-thor-film-is-the-gayest-marvel-movie-yet\">\u2018I Love That\u2019: Natalie Portman Boasts New \u2018Thor\u2019 Film Is The \u2018Gayest\u2019 Marvel Movie\u00a0Yet<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to LGBT messaging, Marvel\u2019s \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d will likely suffer the \u201csame fate\u201d as the Disney\/Pixar \u201cToy Story\u201d underwhelming spinoff, \u201cLightyear,\u201d insiders say. According to sources at The Hollywood Reporter, China\u2019s film regulators have yet to grant a release date for the \u201cThor\u201d sequel, and likely never will. \u201cSources at two major cinema &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1549304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}