The last Spider-Man will be ostracized in the Emirates. The latest installment in the Spider-Man saga, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. », which contains a scene with a pro-transgender poster, will not be screened in theaters in the United Arab Emirates, the film company said Friday. The animated film was due to be released this month in the wealthy Gulf state, which regularly positions itself as a champion of tolerance and coexistence in the Middle East.
” Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will not be released in the United Arab Emirates,” VOX Cinema, one of the region’s leading film companies, told AFP without giving details. The animated film caused a reaction online due to a scene with a blue-pink-white flag with the inscription in English: “Protect transgender children”.
“A warning to mothers and fathers,” prominent lawyer Habib Al-Mulla warned on Twitter, denouncing “homosexual and transgender propaganda.” “Pay attention to your children,” he insisted.
On Monday, the Media Regulatory Authority warned that it “will not allow the broadcast or publication of content that is contrary to the values” of a Muslim country where more than three-quarters of the population is made up of expatriates from around the world. The Ministry of Culture’s work visa agency did not provide details or respond to questions from AFP.
The film will not be screened in other Gulf countries either.
Last June, he banned Buzz Lightyear, an animated film about two women kissing, citing “a violation of current media content standards.” In September, he also protested Netflix’s “shocking content”, promising “necessary action” if “the values of Emirati society” were violated.
References to the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) communities that are growing in major American productions have sparked a backlash in the Middle East, especially in the wealthy and conservative oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf. The release of the last Spider-Man is also not planned at the sites of film companies in other countries of the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait.
However, in 2021, the United Arab Emirates, along with the Ministry of Tolerance, announced an end to cinema censorship after long cutscenes were deemed an assault on morality.
Source: Le Parisien
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