The Chinese release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been abruptly cancelled, following an appeal by Bruce Lee’s daughter over the film’s controversial depiction of her father.
Prior to its cancellation, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Chinese release would have marked the first time a Tarantino movie had been widely released in cinemas in the country.
Shannon Lee publicly condemned Tarantino in July, when she said that she felt the film depicted her father as a “caricature” and an “arrogant a**hole who was full of hot air”.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shannon Lee directly appealed to China’s National Film Administration to pull the film’s release and demand that Tarantino edit the film to depict her father in a more positive light.