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Patriotic C-movie Born to Fly with Wang Yibo and Hu Jun Abruptly Pulls National Day 2022 Premiere Three Days Prior

Well this is juicy stuff that is prime for speculation as to the reason why. Last week was Golden Week in Mainland China which starts with October 1 National Day leading to a weeklong public holiday. It’s usually when high profile and big budget movies are premiered with many more moviegoers expected. Born to Fly was billed as the Chinese version of Top Gun starring Wang Yibo and Hu Jun in a patriotic Chinese air force movie with plenty of spectacle. Slated to premiere on September 30th, it was abruptly pulled from the lineup three days prior on September 27th when the production issued a statement that it was scrapping the release in order to present better special effects. Three days before and they figure that out lol. Clearly it’s something else and C-netizens are speculating its related to Wang Yibo’s massive liuliang fanbase buying up tickets which is one of the prohibitions in C-ent to keep fans from spending all their money on stars projects and merchandise. There is also the possibility its related to Hu Jun shilling investment product CFs which has since tanked due to the economic instability. C-actress Zhou Dong Yu has a guest starring role here and maybe her dating scandal with Liu Hao Ran could be the reason. Whatever the case, clearly the production got a “message” and reacted to it.

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  • To say Zhou Dong Yu has a dating scandal is abit much. Both are young single people...why can't they date? Why is it a scandal? Just because they kept it private and busybody media expose them? Honestly, whatever the reasons, I doubt it is Zhou Dong Yu and Liu Hao Ran's dating news.

    There must be reasons only the censorship boards knows...they have been so active these days... who knows what goes on in their minds... They are busy creating diversion for the Gov who are locking Chinese in China...and making many very very upset. The China Censorship board top management will likely get a big bonus this year for doing such a good job..

  • Nay. The rumours were:
    1) The air force people were unhappy with the errors shown in the poster and teaser. And WYB fans got on their bad side for brainlessly defending the errors.
    2) The production behind the movie leaked confidential data about the war planes used in the movie to suspicious third parties.
    3) WYB himself has some scandal that's being kept hush hush.

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