To help enforce social distancing restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, Walt Disney World has enlisted Stormtroopers from “Star Wars.”
14.05.2020 - 19:09 / nypost.com
Bet he wishes he were in a galaxy, far far away right about now.
A Lucasfilm executive is feeling the heat after calling “Star Wars” “fake” on social media, which has prompted the space opera’s devout fans to dub him a charlatan and a sellout.
The triggering moment occurred Saturday while Matt Martin, the story group creative executive for the Disney-owned franchise, was answering a Twitter thread about whether non-Disney-sanctioned spinoffs should be regarded as canon.
Martin concluded that
To help enforce social distancing restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, Walt Disney World has enlisted Stormtroopers from “Star Wars.”
In a tweet, John Boyega slammed Star Wars fans who compared the George Floyd protests to the violence that the franchise’s characters, many of whom are white, have faced at the hands of fictional soldiers called Stormtroopers. Boyega, who played Finn in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, criticized fans who co-opted his tweets about Black Lives Matter and system racism with tweets about he needs to “talk about police brutality against white people.”
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